Review this Word Accessibility Cheat Sheet when you need quick instructions on how to create accessible Word documents. Here are the basics.
Continue ReadingAccessibility Series
Each tutorial within the Accessibility Series builds upon how to make accessible documents and web pages. Piece-by-piece, these concepts help you develop more accessible documents and presentations.
Accessibility Fundamentals
This tutorial includes accessibility fundamentals to help make all your digital content accessible.
The goal is to create an equitable learning experience for all students, giving them an equitable opportunity to succeed in your course.
Continue ReadingIntro to Accessibility: The What, Why, and How of Accessibility
Welcome to the Intro to Accessibility tutorial!
We will discuss the what, why, and how of accessibility: what it is, why it’s important, and how we do it.
Continue ReadingHow to Create an Accessible Word Document
Follow this guide to help you create an accessible Word document for all your students.
Use the accessibility fundamentals and Word’s internal Accessibility Checker together to ensure you create accessible course materials for your students. This helps ensure every student has an equitable chance of succeeding in your course.
Continue ReadingHow to Convert a Word Document to an Accessible PDF
This tutorial provides instructions for how to convert a Word document to an Accessible PDF. Use the Save As of Save a Copy feature only, as the Print to PDF and Save as Adobe PDF features will not produce an accessible PDF file.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Tables in Microsoft Word
Learn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
Continue ReadingContrast & Color Accessibility
Contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived “luminance” or brightness between two colors.
This brightness difference is expressed as a ratio ranging from 1:1 (e.g., white text on white background) to 21:1 (e.g., black text on white background).
Learn some contrast and color accessibility guidelines and how to ensure you’re using colors all your students can see when creating documents.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Links
It is important to create accessible links throughout your documents and courses for your students. In this post, we’ll provide guidelines to help you create accessible links.
We’ll show several “bad” and “good” link examples to help you create helpful links for use in your documents and course web pages.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Images
Images meant to convey meaning must have an alternate or “alt” text descriptions. Decorative images must be marked as such so they can be skipped by screen readers.
Doing both ensures you will create a document with accessible images throughout.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Headings in Microsoft Word
Headings allow students using screen readers to access and navigate an index-like structure of your Word document (or web page) to jump from heading to heading to find information.
When you create accessible headings, every student can scan your documents, regardless of whether they can see the content.
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