I tested form controls (in Word 2016) during the summer and I found the following: I'm surprised about your findings about the three types of form controls in Microsoft Word. For ActiveX checkboxes, you edit the Checkbox Object – I didn’t look at other form controls, but I expect they have similar objects. For Legacy controls, you add Help Text in the Properties dialog. FWIW, you can add accessible names to ActiveX and Legacy controls, so it doesn’t matter that screen readers don’t read the visible text if you have restricted interaction. I agree with everything else you wrote, which reinforces why you should not use the ActiveX and Legacy controls. Karen McCall described some keyboard navigation issues in her email, but I have not encountered those problems. I found the new Content Control controls to be mostly keyboard accessible in Word 365. This is another reason not to publish forms as Word documents, because I have “professional” clients still using Word 2013 and I know people in the visual impairment community using Word 20. Accessibility support has improved substantially in that time. While your test results with Word 2016 are interesting, it doesn’t get any feature updates so it is 5 years out of date compared with Word 365.
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