When building or creating your document, you should have accessibility in mind the whole time. It is much easier and less time consuming to create an accessible document from the beginning than it is to deal with fundamental fixes after the fact. Even then, when you convert that original document to the PDF format, you’ll need to follow up with special accessibility tools to make sure your PDF document is[…]
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Common PDF Accessibility Mistakes to Avoid
How to make a PDF accessible There could be a whole book on common pitfalls and mistakes when it comes to testing PDF documents for accessibility and PDF remediation. Often issues that come up in PDF remediation are easily fixed. The challenge comes in locating the error and knowing how to fix it. Here are a few common issues known to cause challenges with PDF documents. Embedded Fonts Embedding fonts[…]
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Microsoft Excel contains helpful tools you can use to create barrier-free spreadsheets with accessibility features. Spending only an extra minute or two, you can use Excel’s ‘Check Accessibility’ feature to review and help make your work more user friendly for someone using adaptive technologies such as a screen reader. To begin, click the Check Availability icon on the Review tab, The Accessibility Checker will highlight any potential errors[…]
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Improve Your PowerPoint Accessibility It’s imperative that you incorporate accessibility best practices into your presentations so everyone, including people with disabilities, has an equal opportunity to benefit from your work. For instance, many with visual impairments commonly use a screen reader. A screen reader will dictate the content you’ve created based on a slide’s reading order. In PowerPoint, the reading order does not necessarily go from the top–to–bottom, left–to–right as[…]
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Accessibility is becoming an increasingly important topic for both private and public organizations. One example of creating an “accessible” presentation is building in accommodations for visually impaired individuals who use screen-readers, or software that speaks text aloud. Certain elements of presentations, such as images or graphics, should have alternate text added that describes the image or concept being depicted. Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 provides a helpful tool to detect potential accessibility[…]
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