Two Software Plugins for the Creation of Fully Accessible PDF Documents Based on a Flexible Software Architecture

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• 作者：Alireza Darvishy (1) alireza.darvishy@zhaw.ch
  Thomas Leemann (1) thomas.leemann@zhaw.ch
  Hans-Peter Hutter (1) hans-peter.hutter@zhaw.ch
• 关键词：Document accessibility &#8211 ; automatic generation of accessible PDF &#8211 ; screen reader &#8211 ; visual impairment &#8211 ; accessibility &#8211 ; tagged PDF &#8211 ; software architecture &#8211 ; PowerPoint and Word documents
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：7382
• 期：1
• 页码：621-624
• 全文大小：284.9 KB
• 参考文献：1. Adobe InDesign, http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/
  2. Microsoft Office PowerPoint, http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint/
  3. Microsoft Office Word, http://office.microsoft.com/word/
  4. Freedom Scientific JAWS for Windows Screen Reading Software, http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-page.asp
  5. Microsoft Office 2010, http://us1.office2010beta.microsoft.com
  6. Darvishy, A., Hutter, H.-P., Horvath, A., Dorigo, M.: A Flexible Software Architecture Concept for the Creation of Accessible PDF Documents. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds.) ICCHP 2010. LNCS, vol. 6179, pp. 47–52. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
  7. PowerPoint Accessibility Plugin Download, http://www.zhaw.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/engineering/_Institute_und_Zentren/INIT/HII/Accessibility/AccessibilityAddins/MSOfficeAccessibilityAddInsSetup.zip
• 作者单位：1. InIT Institute of Applied Information Technology, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

This paper presents one of two new software plugins for MS PowerPoint and Word documents which allow the analysis of accessibility issues and consequently the generation of fully accessible PDF documents. The document authors using these plugins require no specific accessibility knowledge. This paper introduces the user interface of the Microsoft PowerPoint accessibility plugin. The plugins are based on a flexible software architecture concept that allows the automatic generation of fully accessible PDF documents originating from various authoring tools, such as Adobe InDesign [1], Word and PowerPoint [2], [3]. The accessibility plugin software implemented allows authors to check for accessibility issues while creating their documents and add the additional semantic information needed to generate a fully accessible PDF document.