Word Accessibility Tips
Use text styles to create an accessible visual hierarchy
- Heading 1 for the page title, Heading 2 for the highest level subtitles, etc
- Use one style per “level” in your hierarchy
Alt text on images
- Alt tags should be a text alternative for the content shown as an image. An images alt text should be equivalent to the image itself.
- Every non-decorative image should have alternative text.
- Decorative images should have an empty alt tag (alt=”” in html).
Accessibility Checker
- Use Word’s built-in accessibility checker to check your Word documents for accessibly issues automatically.
- Find the Accessibility Checker by going to File > Info > Check for Issues > Accessibility Checker
Header row in tables
- When you make a table in word that spans multiple pages, have the table header repeat at the beginning of each page