Microsoft Office: Accessibility

Mahmudul DinGroup #2: Office Plug-In

What is Accessibility? Convenient,

structured format Universal application

for disabled viewers “Accessible”

documents can be viewed by deaf/blind

Important that we enforce as a community

Best Practices General guidelines on how to make

documents Allows for a uniformed, structured

agreement Examples:

Titles and Header usage Picture Groups Captions on Images Correctly formed lists/notes on slides and

presentations

Office and the Past Office allows for things

such as headers/footers and more to help make documents accessible

Last year: Best Practices Wizard

Transferred Word and PowerPoint documents into becoming “Accessible” by formatting it into an HTML web page

Office 2007 Newest version OpenXML

Designed for years Here to “stay” Being standardized XML Markup

Object Model No more RTF! Complete change

What We Must Do Implement an Office-2007 plug-in for:

Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint

Use the power and flexibility of OpenXML to: Help make documents Accessible Create a tool that lets us make accessible

documents Expandable so that future versions will use

our work

The How Visual Studio Programming in C# Manipulation of

OpenXML XPATH XML Manipulation

Object Model Manipulation of

objects Dissecting the files

themselves

Progression: Testing and Deployment Dissecting XML

Formalized ways to find errors Wrote a basic plug-in that allows discovers

errors Enforcer

Need to write a waay to actually mod documents

Object Model Testing

Accessibility Community Various types of documents

The Future Documentation

for expansion HTML conversion

tool? Real-time

accessibility functionality?

Auto-accessorizer?

Credits, Places Best Practices:

http://www.accessiblewizards.uiuc.edu/bp-word.php

OpenXML: http://openxmldeveloper.org/

Microsoft Office: http://office.microsoft.com

Any Questions?