[Athen] Has MS updated Office for Mac for accessibility

[Thompson, Rachel]

The latest version of Office for Mac available on our campus has an accessibility checker in the Review ribbon. Not sure if it has been improved recently, but it has existed for at least a few months.

Rachel


Dr. Rachel S. Thompson
Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility
The Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
A207 Gordon Palmer Hall
Box 870248
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Phone 205-348-0216
rsthompson2 at ua.edu | http://accessibility.ua.edu

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Howard

Here is the Microsoft link with more information.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-the-Accessibility-Checker-on-your-Mac-to-find-and-resolve-accessibility-issues-3b84295e-d55b-49f1-b443-523ec45a5232

It looks like it is in an Insider version but am not sure when this was written. I thought it had been released but then I'm on the Insider Fast track.

Cheers, Karen

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On Sep 12, 2017, at 3:42 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer at ahead.org<mailto:hkramer at ahead.org>> wrote:
Hello All:

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.

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.

Thanks,
Howard

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