There is also a program called pp2html which can easily be found with a
google search (sorry, I'm in my office now with a new computer and all my
links are still on my home machine). Successful outcomes with any of these
are critically dependent on the original design, so I would suggest the site
Axel recommended to give an idea of good design principles.
As to usability with screen readers, as with most applications, the answer
depends on what you want to do with it, or how fancy you want to get. After
a bit of a learning curve I was able to get some reasonable text-only pages
to look fairly decent, but it wasn't always easy and JFW does throw you for
a loop now and then. I haven't tried it with either the newer JFW or
Window-Eyes yet but that's because I seem to have a broken Office 2000 disk
and Microsoft assumes me to be a criminal and won't send me a replacement.
-- Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Gunderson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Power Point
> UIUC is developing a plug-in for power point that is expressly designed to
> produce highly accessible web version of the presentation and creates
> resources that are WCAG double A compliant or better. The preview version
> is available at:
>
> http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/office
>
> Jon
>
>
> At 09:26 AM 2/5/2003 -0500, Randy Horwitz wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >My latest task has been to evaluate Power Point's Accessibility. I have
> >heard mixed reviews about how it is for creating and reading
presentations.
> >I have hearde that the office XP Edition is quite nice. And, then, I
> >wondered what version of jfw folks out there thought worked the best with
> >whichever version of Power Point.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Randy
> >
> >"I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out
> >always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but
> >don't be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed
> >time. "
> >
> >John J. Chapman
> >Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Hobart College, 1900
>
> Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
> Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
> Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
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