topic Re: ODS Word via M7 version for Accessibility to populate the ALT Text / Description in SAS Programming

ODS Word

SASdevAnneMarie — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:36:50 GMT

Hello,

My server is SAS 9.4M5, I can't generate the ODS WORD correctly.

Do I need the SAS 9.4M6 to get the generation of ODS WORD or there is some additional option for SAS 9.4M5?

Thank you!

Re: ODS Word

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:12:54 GMT

ODS WORD is still preproduction as of 9.4M6; for something stable, use ODS RTF.

Re: ODS Word

SASdevAnneMarie — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:58:11 GMT

Thank you, Kurt!
Could I convert the .rtf en .doc?

Re: ODS Word

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:24:55 GMT

All word processors that I know can open RTF files. Word, LibreOffice, WPS Office, ...

Re: ODS Word

SASdevAnneMarie — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:25:18 GMT

Thank you very much Kurt!

Re: ODS Word via M7 version for Accessibility to populate the ALT Text / Description

ernie_d — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:50:24 GMT

Hello

I am using the ODS Word to make my output accessibility. When using the Proc Report, I can use the contents option to populate the Title but I do not know what option to use to populate the ALT Text / Description

Re: ODS Word via M7 version for Accessibility to populate the ALT Text / Description

ernie_d — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:18:12 GMT

I am using this to test:

proc report data=sashelp.shoes(obs=20) SPANROWS contents="report contents=";
run;

Re: ODS Word via M7 version for Accessibility to populate the ALT Text / Description

ernie_d — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:09:07 GMT

Ok SAS Guys,

I can populate the title within the Table Properties of a Word Doc using version M7.

I was able to use VBA code to go into Word Doc to populate the Alt Text description. This makes my report 508 Assessable compliance. I am using this stmt: ODS Word = xxx startpage = Off;

I was trying to attach the keyword KEEPN to this stmt so that I won't get split Tables. But it did not work. Any suggestions would be great.

Re: ODS Word via M7 version for Accessibility to populate the ALT Text / Description

ballardw — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:33:23 GMT

@ernie_d wrote:

Ok SAS Guys,

I can populate the title within the Table Properties of a Word Doc using version M7.

I was able to use VBA code to go into Word Doc to populate the Alt Text description. This makes my report 508 Assessable compliance. I am using this stmt: ODS Word = xxx startpage = Off;

I was trying to attach the keyword KEEPN to this stmt so that I won't get split Tables. But it did not work. Any suggestions would be great.

You really should start new threads when you are discussing subjects other than the original posters topics.

KEEPN is not in the options list, for SAS 9.4.7. So I would not expect ti to work. You may also be misunderstanding the KEEPN option for ODS RTF. It does not prevent splitting a table if it is longer than a single page. What it does is, possibly, is insert a page break before a table. KEEPN plus STARTPAGE=NO means that multiple tables may fit on a "page" if they are both small enough. But if one is too long it gets split. Normally the default behavior would be to start a page for each table regardless of size. So sometimes the combination creates nicer output.

You have decide which is more important, specific table not split or showing multiple tables on a page.

You can force behavior to manually start a specific table on a page using the STARTPAGE=NOW just before a procedure that creates output.

ODS Word does add the OPTION (<suboptions>) which provide some additional options related to splitting rows of a table or a paragraph that might help.

Re: ODS Word via M7 version for Accessibility to populate the ALT Text / Description

ernie_d — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:15:11 GMT

ok this helps me. Thank you very your reply.