MS Word Accessibility and Section 508 Best Practices
Duration
1 Day.
There will be a 30 minute break for lunch and two 10-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon periods.
Audience
This course is intended for Microsoft Word users who want to create accessible or Section 508 compliant documents in Word. No prior knowledge of accessibility or section 508 is required.
Description
The instructor will provide an overview of common MS Word
accessibility-related issues, guidelines and best practices
aimed at creating more accessible documents.
The instructor will also
provide an overview of the PDF Accessibility Wizard (PAW) author-level tool. PAW
assists in making Word documents accessible and generates accessible PDF documents.
The course includes a hands-on portion where the trainees will analyze a number of Word
documents and apply best practices to make them accessible.
The accessibility guidelines and best practices course will cover
the following topics.
- Section 508 Overview
- Key Accessibility Concepts for MS Word
- Data and Presentation Tables
- List items
- Multi-column documents
- Figures, Flow and Organizational Charts
- Text Boxes
- Summary