Who are the experts in document accessibility on the Mac?

18 April 2008 · 3 comments

I recently received an email from an acquaintance: I would love to talk with you about ways of making accessible documents using a Mac. …in partnership with the Blind and Low Vision Education Network, and local and central government, [we have] embarked on a project called Secondary Sight, whose long-term goal is an online, personalised [...]

I recently received an email from an acquaintance:

I would love to talk with you about ways of making accessible documents using a Mac.

…in partnership with the Blind and Low Vision Education Network, and local and central government, [we have] embarked on a project called Secondary Sight, whose long-term goal is an online, personalised education system which is equitable for all. Part of this journey is a project which will see tutorials for teachers on how to create accessible documents for their students.

I replied that unfortunately I was unable to help — I really don’t have any expertise in making documents accessible The web’s another matter — I have quite a few clues there.

Some Googling didn’t really help locate any experts either.

If you do this kind of work, or know how to locate someone who does, please leave a comment on this post. Although my acquaintance is in New Zealand, I’m sure this expertise could be sourced from anywhere.

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Matthew Holloway 18 April 2008 at 22:20 13

What do they mean by documents? Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, or an Office package by Apple? If by documents they mean HTML then I would imagine that it’s mostly still around how to use HTML authoring tools. Do you know if the person asking the question knows exactly what they’re asking about?

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Matthew Holloway 18 April 2008 at 22:23 59

I believe that Joe Clark is interested in Mac accessibility, perhaps you could ask him. Eg,

http://blog.fawny.org/category/macintosh-supremacy/

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Miraz Jordan 18 April 2008 at 22:38 20

Thanks for the Joe Clark suggestion – I had mentioned him.

My correspondent is a blind person, and I’m pretty sure she’s asking about documents like Word, Open Source office-type documents etc.

Probably word processing or other documents that teachers might hand out to students perhaps worksheets and so on.

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