How can I make my MS Word Document accessible?

Attached are instructions to help you make your document accessible.

Here is a link to a youtube to make accessible documents from Word to PDF.  This youtube shows you how to use basic headings.

 Here is an youtube tutorial of a more complex document with tables 

Guidelines:

required

• Use Heading 1, heading 2 etc
• Bold or italic using the style headings(subtle Emphasis, strong emphasis etc) instead of the bold/italic button.
• Create header rows for all tables
• press the button for ‘Header Rows’ for the table
• Added alt text for the table
• Create footnotes using word process
• Remove content from tables that is not data. 

Optional

• Add style to the document
• Add style to tables

More Guidelines to keep in mind

• All tables must have header rows
• All tables must include alt text to describe them
• Tables must contain only data.  They cannot have merged cells.  Data cannot be entered into a table if it does not correspond to the header title.
• No merged cells anywhere ( in excel) .  Tables included.
• To use emphasis you must use the style buttons you cannot use the italic and bold buttons.
• You must include Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 etc

Attachments:
accessibility.pdf