Microsoft Office: Accessibility Mahmudul Din Group #2: Office Plug-In
Jan 11, 2016
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?