PowerPoint Presentation
Accessibility issues - The use of Styles in WordAlthough it has
been possible to apply Styles to Word documents since Word 2000
many people still choose to use body text re-formatted as Bold with
an increased point size to signify headings.Such a document may
look well organised and structured but to a machine it is merely
one long string of characters and words, with full stops to denote
the end of sentences.If Styles have been used:Screen readers will
be able to discern a documents structure and allow navigation to
distinct sections separated by headingsIt will be possible to
create an automatic and dynamic Table of Contents, which will be
transferable to any associated PDF document.1
Accessibility issues - The use of Styles in Word.
Summary has been assigned the style of Heading 2 (see ribbon
highlighting)
Accessibility issues - The use of styles in WordNote: Without
styles there are no in-built landmarks for navigating back to areas
of particular interest. It can be likened to listening to a single
audio track taking up the whole side of old C-90 cassette without
any indexing system.Navigating through a Word document in a linear
fashion with a screen reader
Altho this demo file sounds fast, a skilled JAWS user would
probably increase this even further to skim read a document
Accessibility issues - The use of styles in Word.The use of the
Insert-F6 command with JAWS
Demonstration of the Insert F6 command in JAWS.
You can browse headings by Tab order (as per the demo), Heading
Level or alphabetically4
Accessibility issues - The use of styles in Word.Another benefit
of using Styles is the potential for creating an automatic dynamic
Table of Contents using Styles information in Word.
Accessibility issues The use of styles in WordLinks :IT Services
video - Working with Long Documents: Using Heading Styles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEFoY1TYxb0
IT Services Fact Sheet: Introduction to Heading Styles
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/it/documents/factsheets/word-10-heading-styles.pdf
eLearning Team accessibility guide:
http://abdn.ac.uk/eLearning/accessibility/
WebAims Introduction to Web Accessibility: Word (all versions to
2010): http://webaim.org/techniques/word/#provide2007
Creating accessible PowerPoint files:
http://webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/
JISC TechDis Accessibility Essentials: Microsoft
Officehttp://accessibilityessentials.jisctechdis.ac.uk/#section2