Accessible Documents

0.75 Days

4.5 CPD hours

Making Microsoft Word documents accessible.

Please refer to Overview.

During this course students will interact with a variety of Word documents and review components that would render the document inaccessible. Students will enable the Accessibility Checker and the Speak feature and progress through the processes and procedures to meet the AODA mandate.
Students will ultimately create an accessible set of styles and use those styles within the document.

Adding the Accessibility Checker and the Speak feature

• Discussions will follow as to the limitations of the checker
• When the checker won?t run

Document Metadata

• Students will review where and why to add metadata to a Word Document
• Setting the application language and setting the document language
• Setting the document title
• Adding the Author and subject metadata fields

Creating Accessible Paragraphs and Columns

• Students will see the perils of incorrect use of hard returns and text boxes within a document
• Exercises will have students work with paragraph formatting and column formatting for accessibility

Creating Accessible Tables

• Students will interact with tables that are poorly designed and restricted them to still maintain content but that are now accessible
• Discussions will surround, changes to how tables are handled when sending to PDF

Accessible Imagery

• Students will discuss the need to images with a document
• The Alternate text feature will be used and the rationale for adding specific types of descriptions
• Students will see and understand the rationale for ?in-line- imagery

Styles for Navigation

• Students will use and modify the built-in styles feature of Microsoft Word and create a table of contents
• Students will see with the use of the navigation pane, how styles impact accessibility
• Students will also understand the importance of proper styles nesting

Headers, Footers and Footnotes

• Students will discuss and then implement accessible headers and footers
• Students will discuss footnotes and alternative methods to provide footnotes

Verifying Reading Order

• Students will ?listen? to their documents using the Speak feature
• Students will enable the selection pane as an accessibility tools and discuss its limitations

Creating an Accessible Style Template

• Students will create several accessible styles including headings and paragraphs
• Students will save the style within a template

Additional course details:

Nexus Humans Accessible Documents training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.