Tutorial #2: Use Central Access Reader (CAR) to Read an Accessible Word Document
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Download and install Central Access Reader (CAR), a powerful open source accessible reader (Windows 64-bit only):
http://archive.org/download/CARSetup64/CAR_Setup_64.exe -
We recommend making this reader available from your website if you decide to provide digital materials in accessible DOCX format.
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Open Central Access Reader.
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Go to the "Advanced Settings Menu"
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click the downward pointing triangle, click on
"Help," then click on "Tutorial." The tutorial will walk you though the
functions of CAR. -
Read the following pages and become familiar with Central Access Reader:
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Using CAR, open the accessible DOCX file you created in Tutorial #1. Here's the file in case you want to use ours: accessible.docx
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Explore CARs features.
Note: In Tutorial #1 we created an accessible DOCX file from scratch. You may be wondering why we did not use one of the many available, online PDF2DOCX conversion utilities to convert the original 10-page PDF file into a DOCX file and then read it using Central Access Reader. The reason is that automated conversion utilities/services cannot create accessible DOCX files from PDF files. Here are a few examples:
Try opening one the following, automatically converted DOCX files using CAR.
Here's the original PDF File: 1-May-2017-CONNector-ppg-1-10.pdf
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Converted DOCX File 1: 1-May-2017-CONNector-ppg-1-10-p2w.docx
Source of Conversion: http://pdf2docx.com/ -
Converted DOCX File 2: 1-May-2017-CONNector-ppg-1-10-p2w-ocr.docx
Source of OCR Conversion: https://online2pdf.com/pdf2docx -
Converted DOCX File 3: 1-May-2017-CONNector-ppg-1-10-p2w-no-ocr.docx
Source of Conversion: https://online2pdf.com/pdf2docx -
As you can see, automatically generated DOCX files do not display well using Central Access Reader.
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Go to Tutorial #3