While sighted users can scan a page for large or bold text to identify headings, non-sighted users who rely on screen readers miss these visual cues. Adding section heading styles to your documents ...
As the founder of a company specializing in digital accessibility, I’ve helped businesses make their websites more inclusive and compliant. Yet there’s an often-overlooked aspect of accessibility that ...
Making sure your documents are accessible supports people with disabilities who may also use assistive technologies. It also makes the document more usable for everyone. In this tutorial, we'll review ...
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 ...
As digital technology advances at a breakneck pace, so does the importance of crafting content that is useful to everyone. Unfortunately, many documents shared online are still largely inaccessible to ...
When city after city in Florida was hit by lawsuits for failing to provide accessible websites and electronic documents, many officials didn’t realize the magnitude. All told, over 200 municipalities ...
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 ...
University Marketing and Communications offers branded Word and PowerPoint templates through WebDAM. Looking for templates for something outside of Case Western Reserve? Check Microsoft's accessible ...
Earlier this month, Cory wrote about the Microsoft Office Accessibility Checker, a simple software tool that allows you to check your documents automatically for potential accessibility problems.
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 ...
PDF documents generated from LaTeX rarely contain semantic structural information, nor can they be displayed flexibly. Both properties are central to usability for people with disabilities (see also ...
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 ...