HTML viewing by different browsers and Macs

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Mick Ruthven

I'm converting some PP 2002 presentations to HTML for web viewing in
browsers. Can you tell me what browsers they will/won't be compatible with.
Same for Macs.

Thanks,

Mick Ruthven
 
The PPT2HTML tool gives you greater control over your HTML
output, but also requires more understanding of HTML.
Both products are available for free download, so why
don't you try them out and see which you like best?

My particular focus is on accessibility, so I advocate
converting and posting presentations in multiple formats
and including links to the viewers. For example, post in
PPS, PDF, text-only and HTML formats and include links to
PowerPoint Viewer, PowerTalk (which reads presentations
aloud), and PDF Reader. This allows the reader to choose
the format best suited to their particular situation.

HTH,
Glenna
 
Mick Ruthven said:
Do you know the differences between the iCITA Office Web Accessibility
Wizard and PPT2HTML from rdpslides?
Click to expand...

OWA focuses entirely on accessibility and creates its own HTML, as I
understand it. It does a more thorough job of rendering some PPT features
accessible (data behind charts, for example)

PPT2HTML is a more general purpose solution that addresses accessibility but
also gives you a great deal of freedom to define what your HTML output will
look like. It doesn't so much generate HTML as "merge" PowerPoint info and
images into an HTML template, either one of the supplied ones or one you
create yourself. http://www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/ has a lot more
information and sample conversions..
 
I still don't know what limitations on accessability there are for straight
Powerpoint-converted html. Can you tell me that?

The PPT2HTML tool gives you greater control over your HTML
output, but also requires more understanding of HTML.
Both products are available for free download, so why
don't you try them out and see which you like best?

My particular focus is on accessibility, so I advocate
converting and posting presentations in multiple formats
and including links to the viewers. For example, post in
PPS, PDF, text-only and HTML formats and include links to
PowerPoint Viewer, PowerTalk (which reads presentations
aloud), and PDF Reader. This allows the reader to choose
the format best suited to their particular situation.

HTH,
Glenna
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello Mick,

PowerPoint provides the "Web Options" dialog where you can control which
browsers you are targetting for your HTML output. PowerPoint HTML output
can be made to be compatible with browsers as far back as Internet Explorer
3.0 or Netscape Navigator 3.0. Of course, the earlier the version of
browser that you target, the more functionality (of a native PowerPoint
slide show) that you will lose.

However, PowerPoint provides an additional option that allows you to target
the most recent browsers (where most slide show fidelity will be retained)
while still allowing the HTML slides to be viewed in earlier browsers. You
can do this in the Web Options dialog by choosing the "Save an additional
version of the presentation for older browsers" option.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide additional documentation, options or features surrounding it's HTML
export capabilities, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)


John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
 
I just tried the Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft ® Office. It
prompts you for input on every slide! That's just not workable for me. I'm
not willing to spend that kind of time in the conversion. I need an
automatic html creator with output that can be read my Macs as well as PC's.

Hi Mick,

To ensure maximum accessibility of your converted
presentations, consider one of these options:

Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft ® Office
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office/

PPT2HTML
http://www.rdpslides.com/webresources/

HTH,
Glenna
 
I didn't see anything about Macs or browsers other than IE or Netscape in
the "Web Options" dialog Is the output viewable by Macs?
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

It won't say anything about Macintosh. Instead, it will give you options to
choose which version number of browser to support. HTML is a platform
independent format (the version of HTML is much more important than on
which platform you are).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
 
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