[Athen] Has MS updated Office for Mac for accessibility

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Hadi.

-Howard

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Hadi Rangin <hadir at uw.edu> wrote:


> HI Howard,

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> We have been collaborating with Microsoft Office group as well as their

> Mac Outlook team. All the points you mentioned have been in our issue list

> and they are indeed working on them. We are on the insider release and

> don’t know if all THOSE ENHANCEMENTS MADE TO THE PUBLIC VERSION YET.

>

> Let me verify those features with my students and I will let you know.

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> Thanks,

>

> Hadi

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>

>

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

> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer

> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:42 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* [Athen] Has MS updated Office for Mac for accessibility

>

>

>

> Hello All:

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> I've heard from a very reliable source that you can now run the Office

> accessibility checker (as per the Windows version) for Word and PowerPoint

> and create accessible PDFs from Word and PPT for the MAC.

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> I'll need to change some online content if this is the case and since I

> don't work much in the Mac environment I just wanted to verify that this is

> the case.

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> Thanks,

>

> Howard

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