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Recipe for Creating Accessible Word Documents
Cooking with Carolyn
Learn how to create an accessible Word
document
Why? PDFs cannot be the sole source of presenting
online information (unless they have been remediated)
By default, PDFs are not accessible (and are difficult and time-intensive to make accessible)
Must provide PDF content in an alternative, accessible format (i.e. web page or Word document)
What’s the purpose of seminar?
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National Federation of the Blind (NFB) filed a
federal complaint against Penn State Settlement specifies what actions need to be
taken to remedy the situation
Accessibility: Hot Topic at PSU
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Information needs to be accessible to
everyone Provides benefits to everyone (those with and
without disabilities) Examples:
Curb cuts (navigation in physical world) Document headings (navigation in electronic
world)
Why is accessibility important?
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Content must be accessible so that it works
with a variety of products, such as: Assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers) Mobile devices Web browsers, etc.
Demonstration of a screen reader (used by those with visual impairments) View demo file
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Access to Information
Create accessible:
Headings Images Tables Charts Hyperlinks List Items
Use the Accessibility Checker Choose Word settings to create “accessible”
What we’ll learn today…
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Download and save exercise:
http://behrend.psu.edu/exercisefiles
OR
http://psbehrend.psu.edu/intranet/computer-center/exercise-files/exercise-files-for-training
Perform exercise
Exercise
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See last page in hand-out
Other resources: Web Resources for Content Editors PDFs and Alternative Formats
Best Practices and Resources
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Check the event calendar at Penn State’s
accessibility web site: http://accessibility.psu.edu/event
Other Training
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Seminars\HowToGuides\Accessibility-OfficeDocs\CreatingAccessibleWordDocs.pptx\07.23.14
Contact Carolyn Dudas (ddz@psu.edu, ext. 6458)
Questions?
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