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 ...

Creating accessible Microsoft Word documents is relatively easy when you know what is required. Word also has a real time accessibility checker that alerts you to errors and provides accessibility ...

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 ...

Follow these steps to create Microsoft Word documents that are accessible for people with disabilities and for people who use assistive technology — and more usable for everyone. Assistive technology ...

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 ...

If you share your document as a PDF file, it is important that you correctly export your document from Word in a way that preserves all of the accessibility information you’ve built into your document ...

Headings within documents are important for all readers. For individuals without visual impairment, they provide information at a glance to know the content of each section. If readers want to skip to ...

Word is a core component of Microsoft's Office suite of apps, which is why each update it receives gets a lot of attention from our readers. Recently, Microsoft removed the ability to send documents ...

Word has always been the workhorse app of the Microsoft Office suite. Nearly everyone who uses Office ends up using Word at some point, whether it be for writing memos, typing up agendas, creating ...

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 ...

There is a newer resource on Understanding Accessible PDFs that is the current official summary of our knowledge and services around PDF accessibility. It is usually overall more accessible to make ...