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Microsoft Office provides a native accessibility checker in Word and PowerPoint. View these video & how-to tutorials to learn more about reviewing accessibility tools and creating accessible documents.

Show Me: Word

: It's important to keep your files accessible to people with disabilities.: Learn how to open and use the Accessibility Checker to find issues that make Word difficult for people with disabilities.: Alt text can be read by screen readers, and helps people who are blind or who have low vision understand what images and other objects are.: Learn how to use styles for headings to make your documents easier to navigate.: Learn how to create hyperlinks that use natural language so they're easy to understand. file names: When you use meaningful and add properties to your documents, you make your files easier for everyone to find.:
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Learn how to set up tables so they can be read out loud to people who use a screen reader.

Show Me: PowerPoint

: Put the content in your PowerPoint slides in the intended reading order so the screen readers read it correctly for users with a vision or reading disability.: Use these techniques to make the charts, graphs, and images in your PowerPoint slides accessible to users with a vision or reading disability.: The colors and styles you use for slides, text, charts, and graphics go a long way toward improving accessibility in PowerPoint presentations.: The elements that make presentations clearer and easier to comprehend for people with dyslexia also make them better in general.:
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To make a PowerPoint presentation more accessible to people with disabilities, save it in an alternate format that can be read by a screen reader.


Additional Resources

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