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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can check out a new feature in Word for Windows called Quick Fix. It's been made to correct multiple accessibility issues in Word files at once. Trying to ...

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 ...