Microsoft Office provides a native accessibility checker in Word and PowerPoint. View these tutorials to learn more about reviewing accessibility tools and creating accessible documents.
Show Me: Word
Creating accessible documents: It's important to keep your files accessible to people with disabilities.
Check document accessibility: Learn how to open and use the Accessibility Checker to find issues that make Word difficult for people with disabilities.
Improve accessibility with alt text: 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.
Improve accessibility with heading styles: Learn how to use styles for headings to make your documents easier to navigate.
Create accessible links in Word: Learn how to create hyperlinks that use natural language so they're easy to understand.
Create accessible file names: When you use meaningful file names and add properties to your documents, you make your files easier for everyone to find.
Create accessible tables in Word: Learn how to set up tables so they can be read out loud to people who use a screen reader.
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.