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A helpful tool for instructors to easily create accessible HTML from PowerPoint slides, without any web development knowledge. Automatically generates text equivalents, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards.
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Microsoft Power Point Accessible Web Publishing Wizard Dan Linder, M.C.S.Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Problem • Instructors are not web developers • Instructors don’t know about accessibility • More instructional materials are put on the web • There are a lot of instructors
Problems with Power Point Web Publishing Features • Limited ability to create text equivalents • Default format is XML • Default markup can only be viewed in IE • Markup does not meet WCAG W3C requirements
Goals of the Project • Accessible HTML by default • No knowledge of accessibility or HTML • Prompt users for accessibility information • Automatically generate text equivalents
Acknowledgements • Trace Research and Development Center • Illinois Board of Higher Education • Division of Rehabilitation – Education Services • College of Applied Life Studies
How do I get it? • http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/office • Search with “Google” for “Microsoft Office Accessibility” or “PowerPoint Accessibility”