Accessible MS Word forms for Equality Tribunal
Thursday, 06 May 2010
The Equality Tribunal came to us looking for help in making an MS Word form accessible to users of assistive technologies such a screen readers. Members of the public who want to make a complaint about discrimination have to fill in this form.
It's a tricky issue making MS Word forms accessible, especially since we want to produce one form that is suitable for everyone, including sighted and visually impaired people, those who use assistive technologies and those who don't. This rules out a lot of the techniques you can use for making a form that is optimised for screen readers, because the reuslts will be pretty weird for most people.
We're not going to tell you what we've done, yet, but look out for an article on this one day soon.