Use our Word Accessibility Checklist (PDF) to ensure your documents meet accessibility standards and are fully compliant with ADA and WCAG guidelines. Alternate text (alt text) is crucial in a Word ...

Microsoft Word documents can be made accessible with proper headings, built-in numbered or bulleted lists, descriptive links, adding alternative text to images and adding headings to tables. This will ...

Microsoft Word includes a built-in Accessibility Assistant feature that will automatically check for certain accessibility issues and help you correct them. To use the accessibility checker, go to the ...

A limited number of font styles are used. Simple fonts are used (e.g., Verdana, Arial, or Times New Roman) There is adequate spacing between lines and characters (so that lines and letters are not ...

Creating a PDF from Microsoft Word begins with creating an accessible Word document. Prior to conversion, run the Microsoft Word accessibility checker to ensure the document is free of accessibility ...

To meet new federal requirements, all digital platforms must conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1 AA standards by May 2026. Websites with unresolved flagged accessibility ...

At the company's big Surface event earlier this year, Microsoft made a point of highlighting many of the accessibility features baked into its hardware and software. This month, Redmond continued that ...