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

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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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.

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  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

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  1. InIT Institute of Applied Information Technology, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Alireza Darvishy, Thomas Leemann & Hans-Peter Hutter

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  1. Alireza Darvishy
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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Darvishy, A., Leemann, T., Hutter, HP. (2012). Two Software Plugins for the Creation of Fully Accessible PDF Documents Based on a Flexible Software Architecture. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_94

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