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

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks you Joseph, Karen. That's great info.

-Howard

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Joseph Sherman <Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu>
wrote:


>  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.

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> Joseph Sherman

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> Accessibility Specialist

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> CUNY Computing & Information Services

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> 395 Hudson St 6FL, 6-236

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> *646-664-2167 <646-664-2167>| * *Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu

> <Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu>*

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Karlen Communications

> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:35 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] some questions on Word accessibility and the

> built-in accessibility checker

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>

> Howard:

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> There is detailed information for both questions in the new tables and

> columns document at

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> http://karlencommunications.com/handouts.html

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> 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.

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> For captions on tables, use the caption tool...select the table to see

> this option in the context menu/right mouse click or AppKey.

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> 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.

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> Hope this helps.

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>

> The handouts have samples of accessible and inaccessible content.

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> Cheers, Karen

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> Sent from my iPad

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

>

>   Hello All:

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>

>

> 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.

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> Thanks in advance for any help.

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> -Howard

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