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Are you or anyone you know an Excel accessibility wizard? I am working with an Accounting professor that has done an incredible job redesigning her materials to be accessible to a blind student in her class. She has sent me specific questions about her excel
files and there is a need for deeper support that is beyond my current knowledge.</div>
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Her question is below and I have attached the mentioned files as well.</div>
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>From professor:</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white">While we have recently discovered a feature that lets a student<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><i style="font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white">efficiently</i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>use
range names to create formulas (eliminating the need to know WHERE a given piece of data is actually located), there are times when naming ranges is not efficient. So there are still times when we need to be able to refer to a specific location<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><i style="font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white">in
the process of creating a formula</i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white">. If the data is located on a sheet other than where the formula resides, the only way we have been able to enter the cell
address in the formula is by PRE-locating the cell, then eventually typing the cell address into the formula. This is cumbersome, time-consuming and a distraction from the flow of accounting thought. So we are still hoping for a better way.</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white">I’ve attached two of our accounting files, (both the original file and the completed file) in case you want to forward them to your contact, but I’m not sure how
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