Accessibilty-Resources

Microsoft 365 Accessibility Resources

General Accessibility Checker/Accessibility Assistant Info

• Make your content accessible to everyone with the Accessibility Checker (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• (Current/old): Improve accessibility with the Accessibility Checker (text; support.microsoft.com)
• (New) Improve accessibility in your documents with the Accessibility Assistant
• Check accessibility while you work in Office apps (text; support.microsoft.com)
• (New) Get real-time notification of accessibility issues while working on Microsoft 365 apps (text; support.microsoft.com)

Alternative Text

• Everything you need to know to write effective alt text in Microsoft 365 apps (text; support.microsoft.com)
• Cooper Hewitt Guidelines for Image Description (text; cooperhewitt.org)
• Alternative Text WebAIM article (text; webaim.org)
• NWEA Image Description Guidelines for Assessments (PDF; nwea.org)

Word

• Make your Word documents accessible to people with disabilities (text; support.microsoft.com)

PowerPoint

• Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities (text; support.microsoft.com)
• Create slides with an accessible reading order (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Improve image accessibility in PowerPoint (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Use more accessible colors and styles in slides (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Design slides for people with dyslexia (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Make presentations more accessible with PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams (2-minute YouTube video; Microsoft)
• How to Present PowerPoint in Teams Like a Pro (8-minute YouTube video; Teacher's Tech)
• Save a presentation in a different format (video and text; support.micrsoft.com)

Excel

• Accessibility best practices with Excel workbooks (text; support.microsoft.com)
• Start with an accessible Excel template (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Create more accessible tables in Excel (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Create more accessible charts in Excel (video and text; support.microsoft.com)

Outlook

• Make your Outlook email accessible to people with disabilities (text; support.micrsoft.com)
• Improve email accessibility (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Improve image accessibility in email (video and text; support.microsoft.com)
• Add accessible tables and lists to email (video and text; support.microsoft.com)