Accessible Documents
Accessible Documents
Structural & Semantic Elements
Page title, Headings, Text and typography, Color and contrast, Content, Images, Tables
Microsoft Office Programs
Video Trainings from Microsoft
- Microsoft Word Accessibility - 7 Lessons: Check document accessibility, Improve accessibility with alt text, Improve heading accessibility, Create accessible filenames, Create accessible tables, Creating accessible documents.
- Microsoft Excel Accessibility - 3 Lessons: Start with an accessible template, Create more accessible tables in Excel, Create more accessible charts in Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint - 5 Lessons: Create more accessible slides, Improve image accessibility in PowerPoint, Design slides for people with dyslexia, Save a presentation in a different format
- Learn to use the Accessibility Check in Microsoft apps: Many Office 365 apps include an Accessibility Checker that finds accessibility problems and lists suggestions, or you can find specific tips for making your content accessible to all for the products and platforms listed on the page.
PDF Accessibility
Acrobat DC accessibility guides from Adobe
- PDF Accessibility Overview document details what is meant by accessibility in the PDF file format. It reviews accessibility features of the PDF file format and characteristics of accessible PDF documents.
- Accessibility features of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, and how the features of the software and the file format interact to achieve accessibility for people with disabilities.
- Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow guide provides a step-by-step method for analyzing existing PDF files and making them accessible based upon that analysis. This workflow coincides with the workflow provided in the Make Accessible Action wizard and potential issues tested for in the Accessibility Checker tool.
- Using the Acrobat Pro DC Accessibility Checker guide describes the PDF accessibility checkers that are included in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Even if you generate an accessible PDF file from an authoring application such a word processor or desktop publishing program, you should then follow the steps in this guide in order to identify any items that may have been missed in the initial conversion, or to add PDF accessibility features that were not provided by the authoring tool.
- Creating Accessible Forms with Acrobat Pro DC guide describes how to use the forms tools within Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to add descriptions to form fields, tag untagged forms, set the tab order, manipulate tags and perform other PDF accessibility tasks.