If you have any questions, please post in the General Comments/Questions About the Course or email me. Creating accessible content is becoming easier. You've taken the first step in using styles in Microsoft Office products. Reflections are informal essays, and function like a journal to both document and explore our thoughts.To apply a one-click fix, select an action from the. To address the issue, select the down arrow button next to it. The list expands and shows the items and objects. Did you have any "ah, ha" moments? If so, what clicked and why? Where did this lead you? Apply recommended actions In the Accessibility pane, select an issue under Warnings or Errors.Discuss any difficulties or challenges you faced in the reading or the exercises.Write a reflection that covers your thoughts and process of learning throughout Module 2 - Accessible Microsoft Word Documents.
Now it's time to wrap up the module and reflect on the learning. This is an important step because we are familiar with Word even if not familiar with Styles or Alt Text. In the Ribbon, select References tab, then select Insert Caption. Select the number of rows and columns by highlighting the boxes on the grid. In the Ribbon, select Insert tab, then select Table. Pictures can have location as text (eg ‘Yerevan, Armenia’ or ‘London, UK’) or at least the GPS co-ordinates added by the camera.Īll that is ignored in favour of an AI’s semi-educated guess based on the image alone.The entirety of this module was focused on guiding you to a better understanding of Accessibility and the use of Styles and Alt Text in Microsoft Word. Use Words built-in accessibility checker (See step 9 below.) Steps to creating an accessible Table.
ACCESSIBILITY IN WORD 2016 PROFESSIONAL
Professional corporate images like logos and product images often have meta-data to aid searches and identification. Images might have a text title and subject. There’s EXIF or ‘meta-data’ in photos that would be useful in making Alt Text. Modern cameras and smartphones add extra info that could be used to add a useful label. Microsoft’s obsession with their own AI ‘cognitive’ cloud services seems to have blinded them to the bleedingly obvious. Not even the proper image location, instead it’s the temporary cached image copy! WTF? If you do copy/paste an image into a document, a file path and name is added as Alt Text. You’d expect all images inserted into documents are processed the same way … but no. Inserting an image by copying a file from Explorer into a document doesn’t trigger the alt text generation. Other, faster, ways of adding an image are ignored by the automatic Alt Text feature. The automatic generation of Alt Text is only added if you use the menu option Insert | Picture. We’ve been looking at the feature for six months in the foolish hope that it would be improved … no such luck. Microsoft conference demonstrations) but no more. It has all the familiar hallmarks of an Office feature that’s been made good enough to pass minimal standards (i.e. Right click on an image and choose Edit Alt-Text to see a side-pane then click ‘Generate a description for me’.Īside from the privacy concerns, the feature is inconsistent, buggy and incomplete. Pity it’s not been refined and fixed once the hype died down.Įarlier this year, Microsoft added an ‘Alt Text’ feature to Office which tries to automatically suggest alternative text for visually impaired readers. Microsoft proudly added accessibility features to Office 2016 for Windows, in particular ‘Alt Text’.