Microsoft Word. You are here: Home > Articles > Microsoft Word - Creating Accessible Documents Introduction Microsoft Word is currently the most widely-used word processor on the market.
Because it is so common, the .doc format has become the de facto format for text documents. MS Word is often used to create PDF and HTML files for websites. Despite some gains in recent years, creating accessible web content with Word is NOT a straightforward process. About this article The following best practices are provided to help you maximize the accessibility of your Word documents. When you are ready to put these recommendations into practice, select your version of Word from the article contents, or at the bottom of this page. Headings A uniform heading structure is often the most important accessibility consideration in Word documents. Structure through hierarchy Pages should be structured in a hierarchical manner: A is usually a page title or a main content heading. "Headings" created with font styles Notes.
PDF Accessibility - Converting documents to PDF. You are here: Home > Articles > PDF Accessibility > Page 2: Converting documents to PDF Overview PDF files are not typically created in Acrobat.
They are usually created in another program and converted to PDF. There are dozens or probably hundreds of programs that can create PDF files, but very few of them produce tagged PDF files. Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility. PDF files on the web are sometimes annoying and very often unnecessary.
But when they aren’t either of those things, we need to make them accessible for the same reasons we make other web content accessible. Contrary to popular opinion – and also contrary to quasi-judicial claims in some places – PDF documents can be no less accessible than HTML. While this may be a shocking revelation, it is nonetheless true. This article will explain how PDF does and does not support accessibility. Summary#section1 Most PDFs on the web should be HTML.
Dedications#section2 Let me dedicate this discussion to two nations that struggle under the yoke of lies and misunderstandings concerning PDF accessibility. First, to the people of Australia, whose federal human-rights body, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), takes the official position that posting a document online only as a PDF is inaccessible, hence a violation of the Disability Discrimination Act. ...is Google the URL. Tags. Virtual508.com - Tools Facilitating IT Accessibility. CaptionTube: Home. YouTubeCC. Invent + Build / Web + Multimedia / Tools & Guidelines / MAGpie home. MAGpie (Media Access Generator) is the original free caption- and audio-description authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with sensory disabilities.
NEWS UPDATE: MAGpie 2.5.1 (Windows) is now available. MAGpie 2.5.1 contains the following updates: An export selection for the TTXT format, which can be used to add closed captions to movies playable on BlackBerry® smartphones. An export selection to automatically combine (or mux) TTXT caption files with MP4 or 3GP source files.
These closed-captioned videos can be played, and the captions decoded, on BlackBerry smartphones. Captioning Software For the Mac. Interactive Transcripts and Automatic Captions for Developer Videos. Did you notice the new Interactive Transcript feature that lets you scan quickly through the full text of any owner-captioned video that you’re watching on YouTube?
For videos from I/O, that means you can quickly scan through a 60 minute talk to find just the part of the talk that you need to see. Or use your browser search with the Interactive Transcript to find a mention of an API call, and then click on a word in the transcript to jump straight to that part of the video. Because developers don’t all speak English (and because some developers speak really fast when presenting) we caption every video that we post to Most of the year, that’s a pretty easy thing to keep up with. But last year, when we posted all the videos for Google I/O 2009, it took us months to get everything done. This year, we captioned everything within 24 hours or less of the videos going live. Captioning in QuickTime - Two Methods. HOW TO: Add Captions To Your YouTube Videos.
YouTube has a global audience, so if you want to reach as many people as possible, you'll have to make sure subtitles are available for your videos.
You'll want closed captioning to reach the deaf and hard of hearing, too. Thankfully, that process has shifted from relatively easy to an absolute breeze in recent months. Here's how to make it happen. Once you've uploaded a video to your YouTube account, you have two options for generating subtitles for the video: You can use the CaptionTube web app that Google has created, or you can upload a transcript you make yourself and use Google's speech recognition technology to automatically assign the right times to each caption. In either case, you'll end up with a text file that you can edit to make corrections if need be, and viewers will be able to either read the captions in their native language or translate them on the fly when watching your video. CaptionTube Captions By Voice Recognition.