Because the HTML that Excel generates is not automatically accessible to all users, there are two options available to complete the accessibility conversion.
At first, both of these options may seem daunting but it is not as difficult as you might think. For a simple document without much complex formatting, you can create a new HTML document based on an accessible template. For documents containing more complex features and formatting, it may be easier to simply edit the code Excel has generated.
The HTML that Excel produces is so complete, it is recommended that for all but the most complete spreadsheets that you author native HTML using your favorite Web-authoring tool (either a simple text editor or something more complex like FrontPage or Dreamweaver).
There are advantages of utilizing the "Save as Web Page" feature of Excel; for example, the images of the graphs are generated when you use Excel's process. Thus a hybrid approach will be presented combining the best of both of these options. In this module, you will auto-generate an HTML-based version of our Excel spreadsheet, use some of the features and documents that Excel's "Save as HTML" process produces, and then create by hand an accessible version of the spreadsheet in HTML.
The next page will discuss how to convert Excel documents to Accessible HTML.
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