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Small Changes for Big Impact: Creating Accessible Word Documents

Microsoft Word has features that help you create documents that are accessible to people with disabilities. By using these features, you can help readers receive your message clearly. If you don’t, your message might not get through to your readers—with or without disabilities. In this session, we’ll discuss:

Using Word’s built-in Accessibility Checker to help identify issues.
Common accessibility issues and how to prevent or address them.
Accessibility considerations that may benefit all users and not just users with disabilities.
Word documents intended for conversion to PDF and more.

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In this on-demand webinar, TPGi accessibility engineer Jean Strohmier shows how simple, smart choices make your Microsoft Word documents far more accessible — and usable by more people. You’ll learn to run Word’s built-in Accessibility Checker, apply semantic heading styles, add alt-text to images, use proper link text, ensure text contrast and readable fonts, and get documents ready for accessible PDF export. These “small changes” not only support people using assistive tech but improve universal usability.