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Hi! My name is Glenn. I have some NID time and I just found out about the Check Accessibility tool in Word. It highlighted a bunch of things I can improve in my Word Documents more accessible. Join me to work through these issues!

 

To access the Check Accessibility tool in Word, move to the Review tab and click Check Accessibility.
If you’re just starting out, learn more about the Check Accessibility tool.

Word tools and features were designed to create accessible documents by default. When used as intended, Word creates documents that are accessible with no additional steps, hacks, or workarounds required.

Ready to get started? Open up your most frequently used Word document and open the Check Accessibility tool. Look through the results. Select the error below you want to repair first!

I want to fix:

Colour and Contrast

Media and Illustrations

Tables

Document Structure

Document Access

Additional elements not automatically checked:

Accessible Links

Accessible Fonts

Accessible Lists

Best practices for sharing

Going forward

Next

In addition to the above links, you can move through this module in a linear fashion by selecting Next: Colour and Contrast in the bottom right of this window.

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