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Conference Handouts
This page contains conference handouts and more general "how to" documents. Some of these documents might also appear on one of our web pages specific to a Microsoft Office product.
Disability, Access to Education and the Pandemic.
Featured Guest in Blog Articless
Q&A with MVP Karen McCall"As someone with a visual disability, technology has been the key to my lifelong learning"
MVP Spotlight: Karen McCall, MVP for Word and Accessibility MVP, by Microsoft MVP Community, United States.
Accessible PDF and the Potential of PDF/UA by AccessIQ, Australia.
Conference Handoutss
Accessible Word to PDF Documents, WAG Webinar, item 3.1 in the Table of Contents.
Accessing PDF Forms 101: Webinar 1 of 3 for AMAC
Accessible Form Template Design: Webinar 2 of 3 for AMAC
The Basics of PDF Form Controls: Webinar 3 of 3 for AMAC
The Need for a Global Inclusive Education Standard, WAG Webinar, item 4.2 in the Table of Contents.
Create More Accessible Images.
Accessible PowerPoint Placeholders.
Send to Microsoft PowerPoint (create your PowerPoint Presentation in Microsoft Word).
Office 2007 Ribbon Commands (sample of a Table of Contents in an Excel workbook).
Week 1 presentation in alternate format.
Resources from slides for the EASI Accesibility, PowerPoint and Excel webinars.
Comparing OCR in PDF Tagging Tools: Adobe Acrobat Pro, Foxit, PowerPDF (2019 with sample documents attached)
Comparing TOC in PDF Tagging Tools: Adobe Acrobat Pro, Foxit, PowerPDF (2019 with sample documents attached)
Hearing the Needs of an Aging Demographic (CSUN 2017)
Windows Virtual Desktop from the Keyboard (Windows 10)
Windows 10 Accessibility (EASI Webinar August 2016).
PDF and the User Experience Survey Results
Global Inclusive Quality Education Standard
Understanding and Advocating for PDF/UA
The Need to Globally Define an Inclusive Education Standard.
PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) and Section 508 (NPRM 2015)
AODA: Buying into Collaboration (University of Guelph 2014)
AODA: Blueprint for Exclusion - A Case Study 2013 conference presentation in tagged PDF.
AODA: A blueprint for Exclusion, Update 2014 conference presentation in tagged PDF.
Accessible Document Design Conference Handout 2017 with attachments.
Advanced Word Tutorials
The following tutorial files were created to support a four part webinar series I did for EASI on advanced features in Word. The tutorials are done from the perspective of someone using a screen reader to add Footnotes, Citations, and a Bibliography, use Track Changes, create an Index, modify a Table of Contents or import/export styles. The tutorials can be used as standalone documents for those who want to learn how to use these features with adaptive technology and from the keyboard (not the mouse).
The tagged PDF documents have sample Word documents attached so you can practice. I’ve write protected the attached Word documents.
Importing and Exporting Styles
Track Changes, Comments and Comparing Documents
Columns in Word (source Word document).
Columns in Word tagged from Microsoft Word conversion tool.
Columns in Word tagged from Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Ribbon.
Columns in Word - Word document repaired
Columns in Word Repaired converted to tagged PDF
Making Applications Easier to Use
Make the Internet Easier to See.
Outlook 2010Attachments (and RTF Mail Format).
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