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Common PDF Accessibility Mistakes to Avoid

By Leslie Janek  |  August 5, 2020  |    |  3

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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Creating Accessible Excel Documents

By Dallas Richard  |  August 5, 2019  |    |  2

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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Microsoft PowerPoint Tip: Use the Selection Pane to Improve Accessibility

By Karen Williams  |  August 15, 2017  |    |  6

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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PowerPoint 2013 Tip: Checking the Accessibility of a Presentation

By Karen Williams  |  February 26, 2016  |    |  2

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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