UIC Accessibility Guide for Non HTML Formats
There are several formats that are Non HTML but accessibility needs to be considered for UIC pages to be compliant with the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) . The IITAA has a Web page available concerning Implementation Guidelines for Other Technologies.
For those using Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, a free tool called the Accessible Publishing Wizard is available for those on the UIC campus (Students, Faculty, and Staff) that helps convert Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file formats to HTML format. Currently only Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000 are supported using this utility. To download the free software login to the ACCC software Webstore at Site-Licensed Software (E-Sales) where you can find the Accessible Publishing Wizard on the top of the list of available software programs.
Note that the UIC News Bureau Campus Announcements via Email are requiring that message links to PDF files be created in an accessible manner and be noted as an accessible PDF File. One can do this by puttting accessible PDF and the file size by the link to the site, and example of this would be: (Accessible PDF, 30 kb) Having Accessible PDF allows the user with a disability know that the PDF file was created with accessibility in mind.
Here are a list of formats and links to sites on how to make the format more accessible:
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- PDF Format
- Multimedia formats (Captioning, Audio Description, and Transcripts)
- Macromedia Flash
- Java Accessibility
Microsoft Word
- WebAIM's Microsoft Word Accessibility Article
- Western Illinois University's Microsoft Word 2007 Accessibility Workshop (.doc file)
- IBM's Creating accessible Microsoft Word documents
- Microsoft's Create an accessible Office document training page
Microsoft PowerPoint
- WebAIM's PowerPoint Accessibility Article
- Western Illinois University's Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Accessibility Workshop (.doc file)
- Creating Accessibility PowerPoint Presentations by Web Accessibility for All. Center on Education and Work. The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Microsoft's Create an accessible Office document training page
PDF Format
- WebAIM's PDF Accessibility Article
- Western Illinois University's Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Accessibility Workshop (.doc file)
- Creating Accessible PDF from MS Word 2003
- Ohio State University's Accessibility and PDF Documents Page
- Adobe's Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0
- Adobe PDF Forms Access and Accessibility
- Creating accessible forms in PDF, XML, or HTML with Adobe Designer 6 (Accessible PDF, 422k)
Multimedia formats (Captioning, Audio Description, and Transcripts)
- NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
- NCAM Rich Media Accessibility Tutorials
- WebAIM's Web Captioning Overview
- Accessible Digital Media: Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web
- W3C Understanding Synchronized Media page
Macromedia Flash
- Adobe Flash CS3 Accessibility
- Best Practices for Accessible Flash Design (Accessible PDF, 771k)
- WebAIM's Creating Accessible Flash Content