August 2024

This training will teach you how to make your Microsoft Word documents accessible as well as how to handle exporting to a PDF. The guidance in this document is based on WCAG guidelines. We feel it is important to note that we are showing you recommended ways to meet these guidelines. In many cases, there are alternative ways to meet these guidelines that are not included in this training.

We cover the following accessibility-related topics in your Microsoft documents:

  • Texts & fonts
  • Meta descriptions
  • Table of contents
  • Heading styles
  • Lists
  • Hyperlinks
  • Color contrast
  • Alt text for images
  • Tables 
  • Charts & graphs