[Athen] some questions on Word accessibility and the built-in accessibility checker

[Joseph Sherman]

In addition to Karen’s excellent information, the other thing you might want to check is using JAWS, try the “list tables” command (JAWS+T). You want something useful to come up in that list so if a document has a lot of tables a JAWS user could go directly to a specific table of interest.

Joseph Sherman
Accessibility Specialist
CUNY Computing & Information Services
395 Hudson St 6FL, 6-236
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Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] some questions on Word accessibility and the built-in accessibility checker

Howard:

There is detailed information for both questions in the new tables and columns document at
http://karlencommunications.com/handouts.html

We use the Alt attribute for tables to provide structural info about the table such as this table spans two pages, has x columns and y rows, has merged or split cells...that type of information.

For captions on tables, use the caption tool...select the table to see this option in the context menu/right mouse click or AppKey.

Captions for tables optimize accessibility when they come before the table. They let someone with a learning, cognitive or visual disability know what type of information they will find in the table.

Hope this helps.

The handouts have samples of accessible and inaccessible content.

Cheers, Karen

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On May 20, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer at ahead.org<mailto:hkramer at ahead.org>> wrote:
Hello All:

I'm in the process of creating some videos and other resources on accessibility. One of the things I'm looking at is the Accessibility Checker in Word an PowerPoint. I notice that the checker flags for missing table alt text. In the demo document I'm using I have a caption (just normal text centered under the table) and introductory text for the table. I would think alt text would be redundant in this case but since this is going to be a training tool I want to ensure I'm correct on this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Howard


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