Accessible Digital Office Document (ADOD) Project

Result

[ADOD-Office-Applications-UI 7.1] Use all applicable operating system and accessibility standards and conventions that are important or essential to accessibility. The techniques for this checkpoint include references to checklists and guidelines for a number of platforms and to general guidelines for accessible applications.
ADOD Note: The Checkpoint is very general, and includes: Supporting relevant accessibility API(s); Web-based tools conforming to WCAG; Keyboard access; Providing keyboard shortcuts where recommended for a platform; Respecting platform settings (such as “high contrast” modes); and Providing documentation.

Yes.

• Screen reader support is confirmed by testing (see below).
• Most features are keyboard accessible.
• Shortcut menus that you can access directly from objects.
• Respects platform settings including “high contrast” mode.

[ADOD-Office-Applications-UI 7.2] Allow the author to change the presentation within editing views without affecting the [office document]. This allows the author to edit the document according to personal requirements, without changing the way the document is rendered when published.

Yes. “Zoom” feature and support for platform high contrast settings.

[ADOD-Office-Applications-UI 7.3] Allow the author to edit all properties of each element and object in an accessible fashion.

Mostly. Some inserted graphical objects (e.g., shapes) appear to require the mouse be used for editing.

[ADOD-Office-Applications-UI 7.4] Ensure that the editing view allows navigation via the structure of the document in an accessible fashion.

Yes. Via the “Document Outline” view.

[ADOD-Office-Applications-UI 7.5] Enable editing of the structure of the document in an accessible fashion.

Yes. Via the “Document Outline” view.

[ADOD-Office-Applications-UI 7.6] Allow the author to search within editing views.

Yes. Via the “Advanced Find” feature.

VoiceOver OS X 10.6

Headings

No.

Table of contents

Yes.  Links were not presented as such.

Image with “alt” text

No.

Table

No.

Formatted text

Yes. Using the VoiceOver text attributes command (control + option + t). Not all attributes were identified, for example emphasis.

Change tracking

No. The text was available but no changes were announced. Ensured that Edit > Tracking was enabled.

Numbered pages

No. Even looking in the page header and footer sections.

Search function

Yes.

VoiceOver OS X 10.6

Create a new document

Yes.

Create two levels of headings

No. The Paragraph Style button on the toolbar was accessible, but when navigating through the options with the arrow keys nothing was spoken other than “checked” for one item.

Add and then edit paragraph text (e.g. do a select-cut-paste)

Yes.  Using shift + arrow keys to select by character or shift + option + arrow keys to select by word.

Insert an image

No. Using Insert > Choose… and selecting the image file. VoiceOver did not find the image in the document, nor did JAWS with Word.

Insert a 3-by-3 table and fill it with content

No. Using Insert > Table brought up a dialog to insert the table.  VoiceOver did not recognize the table once it was added to the document. VoiceOver only spoke “highlighted” on the line of the document where the table was placed. Using VoiceOver table navigation commands was unsuccessful.

Create a bullet list

Yes. The Paragraph Style and List style buttons on the toolbar were accessible, but when navigating through the options with the arrow keys nothing was spoken other than “checked” for one item. Highlighting 3 lines of text and selecting the item after the currently checked item produced a bulleted list. This had to be confirmed with JAWS and Word as VoiceOver does not detect lists in the document.

Use text formatting (bold, text colour)

Yes.  It was possible to format text as bold from the toolbar.  The color selection widget appeared to be inaccessible.

Add page numbering

Yes. By interacting with the footer section of the page and selecting Insert > Page Number. Voiceover read “highlighted” and not the number when confirming that the number had been inserted.

Insert a table of contents

Yes. However there was no content in the table, since no headings were added to the document.

Save document

Yes.

Other Comments by the Screen Reader Tester:

For the most part Pages performed as intuitively as a VoiceOver user would expect for an Apple product.  One issue that arose Was the need to toggle cursor tracking off (control + option + shift + F3) after selecting text and before navigating to the toolbar to apply a style or formatting.