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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Hi all –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">What’s the best way of providing “fill in the blank” space in a Word document? Faculty members are asking me how to do this in an accessible manner, for students using screen
readers – and I’m “drawing a blank,” so to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">The traditional approaches have been
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">typing a line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Water molecules contain the elements ________ and _________.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">leaving blank space
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">List the elements in a molecule of carbon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">With either traditional approach, if the document is filled out electronically, then the line or space is intended to be replaced with typewritten text. If the document
is printed, then the line or space is written on by hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">If the document were to be printed, then I would use paragraph spacing for my example in #2, so that there aren’t repeated blanks, but that wouldn’t be a good idea if students
were going to answer the questions on their computers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">There are so many details to making electronic documents accessible! And I know it would be easier if faculty members put their content on web pages instead of in electronic
documents, but that isn’t a change we can make in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Thanks for any help you can offer –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#007048">Christine Robinson</span></b><span style="color:#007048">
</span><span style="color:#222A35">| Technical Trainer/Writer | Center for Teaching Excellence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#007048">Georgia Gwinnett College</span></b><span style="color:#222A35"> | 1000 University Center Lane| Lawrenceville, GA 30043<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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