[Irl-dean] Customizing MS Office interface

[Eamon Costello]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has experience of customizing the interface of MS Office
so as to force users to make better structured documents, or at least make
it more difficult to make poorly structured documents. This could involve
something simple like removing buttons for bold, underline, italic,
format-painter, font colour etc, from the default toolbar and forcing them
to use styles instead. Drop-down and context menus could be also hobbled
(though less easily). This could be perhaps applied through workstation
start-up scripts.

This would be in addition to training obviously. Anyone any comments on this
approach?

- Eamon



-----Original Message-----
From: irl-dean-admin at list.eeng.dcu.ie
[mailto:irl-dean-admin at list.eeng.dcu.ie] On Behalf Of Laurence Veale
Sent: 26 January 2007 12:37
To: irl-dean at list.eeng.dcu.ie
Subject: [Irl-dean] Happy Australia Day (but not if you're blind)

G'day everyone,

Today is Australia Day and there's the Australia Day website,
http://www.australiaday.gov.au/, top of the search results on Google
when clicked through from Google's commemorative logo. One or two
accessibility issues worth commenting on.

Given the Olympics saga, strong Australian legislation and some pretty
good skills over there, how can this still happen, particularly on a
Government website?

I've also started this conversation on our blog which I'd love you all
to contribute to (as well as here, of course).

On my post, I've posted some screenshots from JAWS (some sound clips
may have been more effective) .

http://www.iqcontent.com/blog/2007/01/australia-day-website-inaccessible

Lar
-- 
Laurence Veale
Senior Analyst
iQ Content Ltd

Usability | Accessibility | Training | Search

iQ Content is a Google Enterprise Partner

Blog: www.iqcontent.com/blog
Tel: (office) +353 1 817 0768
Tel: (mobile) +353 87 900 2999
Skype: laurenceveale
Fax: +353 1 817 0769
Email: laurence.veale at iqcontent.com

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