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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PowerPoint 2013 Tip: Use the Selection Pane to Improve Accessibility
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 top–to–bottom, left–to–right as you[…]
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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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