Use our Word Accessibility Checklist (PDF) to ensure your documents meet accessibility standards and are fully compliant with ADA and WCAG guidelines. Alternate text (alt text) is crucial in a Word ...

USC’s Fall 2023 semester is up and running. Columbia has flourished as the students are back and our campus is packed. Now, with course content regularly distributed throughout digital platforms, how ...

Microsoft Word includes a built-in Accessibility Assistant feature that will automatically check for certain accessibility issues and help you correct them. To use the accessibility checker, go to the ...

Microsoft Word documents can be made accessible with proper headings, built-in numbered or bulleted lists, descriptive links, adding alternative text to images and adding headings to tables. This will ...

In modern businesses, employees primarily share and read documents electronically, so creating accessible documents can help organizations support all readers. Accessible documents improve readability ...

A limited number of font styles are used. Simple fonts are used (e.g., Verdana, Arial, or Times New Roman) There is adequate spacing between lines and characters (so that lines and letters are not ...

Headings are used to organize documents. Individuals using screen readers or the Braille system can navigate through the document's structure by moving from header to header. Header styles must be ...

Microsoft will add an Accessibility Assistant to Microsoft 365, a boon for those who have trouble seeing, but also a feature you may see crop up while you’re writing in Word or designing PowerPoint ...

Creating accessible documents is essential to ensure that all users, including those with disabilities can access and understand your content. Whether you are working with PDFs, Word documents or ...

At the company's big Surface event earlier this year, Microsoft made a point of highlighting many of the accessibility features baked into its hardware and software. This month, Redmond continued that ...