BBC Strategic Disability Lead & Social Model of Disability advocate and speaker has recently shared a useful short guide to checking how accessible a document is.
Did you know about Microsoft’s in-built accessibility checker? You can use it to do a basic check of your Microsoft documents – Word, PowerPoint and Excel – to see how accessible they are.
You still need to know how to write a good image description, or how to format a table properly, or how to fix font and colour contrast problems. But the accessibility checker tool will highlight these issues for you (and more), tell you exactly where each issue is in the document, and take you to the right place to fix it.
This isn’t the answer to all your accessibility woes – you should still upskill yourself on accessibility and how to fix the issues. But this is a good way of finding potential issues quickly and a great starting point for any novice.
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And find out how to make your documents accessible here.
Building an accessibility check into your workflows isn’t hard, and using the Microsoft Accessibility Checker is a great start!
