[Athen] Has MS updated Office for Mac for accessibility

Shawn Foster fosters at sou.edu
Wed Sep 13 08:28:12 PDT 2017


Agreed, Rachel. I've got v 15.36 on my Mac in my office, and the
Accessibility Checker is available in the Review ribbon.

It could still use some work, especially if you're going to push documents
through that to PDF. However, it's much better than nothing and has been
really helpful in trying to get campus to think about accessible document
design!
sf

*Shawn Foster*

Disability Resources Coordinator

Southern Oregon University | 1250 Siskiyou Blvd | Ashland OR 97520
541-552-6213, option 2



On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Thompson, Rachel <rsthompson2 at ua.edu>
wrote:


> 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.

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> Rachel

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> 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 <(205)%20348-0216>

> rsthompson2 at ua.edu | http://accessibility.ua.edu

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

> Behalf Of *Karlen Communications

> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:04 PM

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

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> Howard

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> Here is the Microsoft link with more information.

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> 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

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> 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.

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> Cheers, Karen

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> Sent from my iPad

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

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> 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,

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> Howard

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