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.
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: 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.: When you use meaningful file names and add properties to your documents, you make your files easier for everyone to find.:Show Me: PowerPoint
Creating accessible slides: 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.
Improve image accessibility in PowerPoint: Use these techniques to make the charts, graphs, and images in your PowerPoint slides accessible to users with a vision or reading disability.
Using more accessible colors & styles in PowerPoint: The colors and styles you use for slides, text, charts, and graphics go a long way toward improving accessibility in PowerPoint presentations.
Design slides for people with dyslexia: The elements that make presentations clearer and easier to comprehend for people with dyslexia also make them better in general.
Save a presentation in a different format: 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.Best practices for making PowerPoint presentations accessible
Use captions, subtitles, and alternative audio tracks in videos