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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!<\/div>\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\r\n\r\nTo access the Check Accessibility<\/strong> tool in Word, move to the Review<\/strong> tab and click Check Accessibility.\"\"<\/strong>\r\nIf you're just starting out, learn more about the Check Accessibility tool<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nWord 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.\r\n\r\nReady to get started? Open up your most frequently used Word document\u00a0and open the Check Accessibility tool. Look through the results. Select the error below you want to repair first!\r\n

<\/a>I want to fix:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nColour and Contrast<\/a>\r\n\r\nMedia and Illustrations<\/a>\r\n\r\nTables<\/a>\r\n\r\nDocument Structure<\/a>\r\n\r\nDocument Access[footnote]The authors do not believe Document Access<\/strong> is a legitimate error as flagged by Word's Accessibility Assistant. A restricted document does not prevent assistive technology from reading the document. As such, there is no chapter on Document Access even though it appears in the Accessibility Assistant pane.[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nAdditional elements not automatically checked:\r\n

Accessible Links<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Accessible Fonts<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Accessible Lists<\/a><\/p>\r\nBest practices for sharing<\/a>\r\n\r\nGoing forward<\/a>\r\n

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Next<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n

\r\n\r\nIn addition to the above links, you can move through this module in a linear fashion by selecting\u00a0Next: Colour and Contrast <\/strong>in the bottom right of this window.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
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!<\/div>\n

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To access the Check Accessibility<\/strong> tool in Word, move to the Review<\/strong> tab and click Check Accessibility.\"\"<\/strong>
\nIf you’re just starting out, learn more about the Check Accessibility tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Ready to get started? Open up your most frequently used Word document\u00a0and open the Check Accessibility tool. Look through the results. Select the error below you want to repair first!<\/p>\n

<\/a>I want to fix:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Colour and Contrast<\/a><\/p>\n

Media and Illustrations<\/a><\/p>\n

Tables<\/a><\/p>\n

Document Structure<\/a><\/p>\n

Document Access[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Additional elements not automatically checked:<\/p>\n

Accessible Links<\/a><\/p>\n

Accessible Fonts<\/a><\/p>\n

Accessible Lists<\/a><\/p>\n

Best practices for sharing<\/a><\/p>\n

Going forward<\/a><\/p>\n

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Next<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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In addition to the above links, you can move through this module in a linear fashion by selecting\u00a0Next: Colour and Contrast <\/strong>in the bottom right of this window.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

  1. The authors do not believe Document Access<\/strong> is a legitimate error as flagged by Word's Accessibility Assistant. A restricted document does not prevent assistive technology from reading the document. As such, there is no chapter on Document Access even though it appears in the Accessibility Assistant pane. ↵<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1655,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-94","chapter","type-chapter","status-web-only","hentry"],"part":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/94\/revisions\/2271"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/52"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/94\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/a11yondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}