Writing Accessible Electronic Documents with Microsoft

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Word

The Accessibility Essentials Guide to writing Accessible Electronic Documents with Microsoft

Word is one of a series of four documents. The further three documents in the series are as follows:

This document has been designed to give practical step-by-step information to enable anyone reading electronic material to amend its look and feel into a style which suits them, their audience or the context in which it is used. The optimum accessibility and usability of a document will be different for every user and every user environment. With these guidelines people can take control of the way a document is presented or navigated. Step-by-step instructions are provided for Microsoft

Word, Adobe

Acrobat Reader, Microsoft

Internet Explorer and Mozilla

Firefox.

This document is designed to outline the techniques people need to use to ensure the writing of accessible electronic information. This document will concentrate on guidance for Adobe

Acrobat Professional and the creation of PDFs. When producing PDFs it is important to ensure that the structuring techniques, which can increase the readability of a document, are used when the PDF is created.

It is important to ensure that while creating presentations accessibility is considered. This document will provide information on the creation of accessible presentations, both for projection and wider use (for example, when a presentation is made available online) along with hints and tips on how to present to an audience in an accessible manner. This document will concentrate on the use of Microsoft

PowerPoint.

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