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7 Steps to Accessible
Word Documents

  1. Add text description to graphics and images

  2. Use color correctly

  3. Use Styles to add structure

  4. Use Tables instead of tabs

  5. Let Word create Bullets and Numbering

  6. Provide a Table of Contents for long documents

  7. Add document metadata

Speaker Notes:

These are seven steps that are covered in the “Creating Accessible Word Documents” presentation. Creating Word documents with these 7 steps in mind will ensure that export of Word into different formats, including PDF and HTML will be more accessible.