Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office 2.1
Published: Jun 22, 2007
The Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office is a product of the University of Illinois Rehab Services and provides a simple way to create highly accessible and standards compliant web versions of Office documents that are more accessible and usable by everyone, including people with disabilities.
The HTML generated by the Wizard supports everyone from legacy browsers and slow Internet connections to the needs of blind users with screen readers. The Wizard does this through the support of W3C XHTML, CSS, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the federal governments Section 508 accessibility requirements. Documents created with the Wizard can be put on the web, e-mailed to colleagues, shared on intranets and read with a wide variety of web browsers.
The use of “Office Best Practices” and the Wizard also increase search engine rankings through the availability of text descriptions for images and header markup for main topics.
Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft® OfficeVersion 2.1 features:
- Support for converting graphical “autoshape” elements with text into either graphics or text in the output
- Improved Excel support (including toggling of row/column indices)
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional output
- Better installation for people running as “restricted” security users
Along with the new version, online documentation has been revised to include “Office Best Practices” to maximize the accessibility and usability of the web versions of your Office documents and a new tutorial on using the Accessibility Wizard to convert Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
The Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard Website offers a free trial version of the software and for $39,95 USD it can be purchased through the projects website as well.
Source: University of Illinois, Rehab Services
