Microsoft Word
How to Create Accessible Microsoft Word Documents
Microsoft Word provides a built-in accessibility checker that identifies accessibility errors, warnings and tips to make your document more accessible.聽 In addition, this feature offers 鈥渉ow to鈥 instructions to fix accessibility issues.
Microsoft Word has excellent resources with in-depth instructions for incorporating accessibly best practices into documents.聽
Strategy for Creating Accessible Word Documents
- 鲍蝉别听聽menu to organize the content in your document.
- 础诲诲听聽for all images in your document聽
- 鲍蝉别听聽for linked materials聽
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- Check your finished document with the built-in聽
- Fix accessibility 鈥渆rrors鈥 and address the 鈥渨arnings鈥 and 鈥渢ips鈥 flagged by the聽
For an example of how principles of accessible documents (headings, alternative text, descriptive links, simple tables, etc.)聽are visible in a document,聽visit the聽Accessible Syllabus Example.