Today's class:

1. Use the built-in accessibility checker in Word to find and fix accessibility errors in your proposals

2. Use the built-in accessibility checker in PowerPoint to find and fix accessibility errors in your presentations

3. Use Adobe PDFs accessibility checker to find and fix accessibility errors in a PDF of your choice (this may not be an option if you have the free version)

4. Then use this checklist Creating accessible documents in Word and PDF to complete the process of making your documents accessible.

Sample files:

I have attached sample files for you to work with, but hopefully you have some PDFs, DOCs, or PPTs to work with on your own computer.

Inaccessible Word Document

Inaccessible PowerPoint

Inaccessible PDF

Resources

Functional Accessibility Evaluator tool to make your website more accessible

Screen Reader User's Experience with MS Word: Screen Reader User's Experience and MS Word (video)

Untagged PDF being read aloud by screen reader:

Untagged PDF being read by a screen reader (video)

Making Presentations Accessible Video:

Making Presentations Accessible (video)