Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Office Team — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:21:45 GMT

@Siddhartha -- This is not the appropriate blog post for general questions. As mentioned above, please use the newsgroups or other related blog posts for that.

However, I did check -- assuming you mean the Windows Live Mail desktop application (as opposed to the web client), it should work with Office 2007 and Office 2010 as long as the Mail application is registered as the default e-mail client. With Office 2007 you may run into an error a few times due to a bug that we later fixed, but if you keep dismissing the error and trying again it should eventually work.

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Janet Schorr [MSFT] — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:57:16 GMT

@sogami -

We haven't currently done any feature by feature comparison with Adobe Acrobat's tagging capabilities, but if such a comparison would be helpful, we can consider looking into it in the future.

Tagging has not changed substantially in Office 2010 from what was provided in Office 2007. We've made updates to support new features, as well as making selected fixes to the existing behavior. If you'd like me to provide an overview of our tagging support in general, I can address this in an additional blog post.

Janet Schorr [MSFT]

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Office Team — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:21:25 GMT

@sogami - Sorry for the delay. We are currently evaluating what our next version of Save as DAISY should take on and PowerPoint is certainly being considered but nothing is finalized.

The project site on source forge is the best place to log all bugs. Also, please feel free to share them here on the blog.

We'll respond to your PDF question shortly.

Larry

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

sogami — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:06:42 GMT

Hello Larry,

I wanted to know if there are any updates to the other questions that I posted earlier?

Any information on what Office 2010’s built-in Save as Accessible PDF supports for the tagged PDF rendered compared to Adobe Acrobat word plug-in?

Are there any plans to make a Save as DAISY for PowerPoint?

Thank you,

Sam

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Siddhartha Parmar — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:37:46 GMT

Hi Larry

I would like to whether Word 2010 will be able to use Windows Live Mail as an email client ? We were unable to use Windows live Mail with Word 2007 from the Office Button>>Send option. If it does not it should atleast work with the click to run option as the Office is being used from Virtual Q drive in that case..

Thanks and regards

Siddhartha Parmar

Microsoft -Outlook

India

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Office Team — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:43:28 GMT

@Sam -- Thanks for your questions. We'll be following up over the next few days.

With respect to your question about file formats, the accessibility checker will work with Open XML files or ODF files, but not when the application is in compatibility mode for an older file format (as would be the case when working with a Word 2007 docx). This is because we want users to focus on the latest formats with the most accessibility features. If saving into an older format, we cannot guarentee that all accessibility features would be preserved. If you like, you can convert your document to the latest version, run the accessibility checker, and then save to an older version (leveraging the Office Compatibility Checker (and other features) as you like to try to mitigate information loss). I hope this helps.

Larry Waldman [MSFT]

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Sam Ogami — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:06:21 GMT

A few questions:

Any information on what Office 2010’s built-in Save as Accessible PDF supports for the tagged PDF rendered compared to Adobe Acrobat word plug-in?

Are there any plans to make a Save as DAISY for PowerPoint this would be a great way to deliver accessible slides to users?

Where would be the best place to post bugs that users are experiencing with the current Save as DAISY tool with Word 2010?

When attempting to use the accessibility checker in beta Word 2010 it will not work with word 2007 docx or doc files but does not give the user any information as to why this is. Will this be fixed in the final version of Word 2010?

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Paul Albright — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:13:26 GMT

The problem mentioned about colorblindness and having colorblind testers is valid for red-green but I'm green-brown colorblind anyway. It's not the spelling/grammar underscores I have problems with. It is the lack of color or shade gradient between the active window/panel/dialog box and the rest. So I have closed the wrong one many times and it is getting worse with Windows 7.

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

Paulius — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:56:06 GMT

Helo

I have instaled mS office 2010 profesional plus beta.

and I was vary glad with it improvements. however, theres one big proglem with equations. Wen I write documet with them and then print, on a printet paper equations is flat and marged and unreadable. is there a way to slaw this problem in my computer, or its programical error ? this happens in oll offce productswhere equations cen be used. (Sorry for my english grammar, because I am not from english speaking country.

re: Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

recky — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:21:31 GMT

good powerpoint