Greg, If you are dealing with forms created by someone else, then as Ralf mentions, the app named "Word Advanced Features" tries to improve how MS Word reads forms fields in a lot of ways.
If you are creating forms; just be sure to put prompting text in each field's "help" data (for the status bar), and this causes WE to read this prompt as the user tabs into each field. Also, if the user is to type in free-form text, it's best if you put such fields in a table cell so that you can control placement, wrapping, and maximum size better (you can turn off table borders and gridlines so no one will ever know that it's in a table). Hth, Chip > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Williams [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Accessible forms > > Hi, > I have to fill out some MS Word forms for work, and they are not very > accessible at present. In googling, the most referenced advice is from a > GW Micro knowledge base article from 2006 or 2007. Is there any newer > advice relating to MS Word 2010, or have things not improved in the last > 5 years? Would it be easier to make a pdf form accessible instead? Thanks. > Greg > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. > If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to > GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to gw- > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
