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http://bayfirst.com/accessblog Mon, 12 May 2008 18:09:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overview Many Microsoft Word documents are exported to PDF files for the purpose distribution to a wide range of users. How well a Word document converts to a PDF file has a lot to do with the document design which is also going have a bearing the accessibility of the document. Below ... http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=10 All content currently on this blog "Developed under Contract Number V766P0709 for Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Information" http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=9 Inspect32 is a tool from Microsoft that enables a developer to verify that information is being correctly exposed through MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility). MSAA is an information source for an assistive technology. As a developer or tester, by verifying that the "Name" property is being passed through, you ... http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=8 Data accessibility is becoming a very critical part of software development but I think many of us forget to address accessibility where it is most common in our day to day computer use.  There are many different Microsoft Office applications so I’m really only going to address some accessibility issues ... http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=7 Testing Style Sheets is the easy part, figuring how to do it can take a little more time.  I’ll do my best with this blog to keep things simple so you can help make your web based product accessible and show you how you can test it.  Cascading Style Sheets ... http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=6 A client of ours recently came to us with a problem. They wanted to add a watermark to their document that indicated the document was a DRAFT copy. Since this particular client needed to make sure their documents met the Section 508 requirements it was important that screen readers such ... http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=5 Some dialog windows do not interact with JAWS in the expected way. When this happens there is text within the dialog that does not get read. Typically you will hear JAWS read only the buttons on the dialog and if a link exists you will hear that read as well ... http://bayfirst.com/accessblog/?p=4