Formatting for Microsoft Word Accessibility
Channel: Yue-Ting Siu
Date: 2015-08-05

This basic tutorial is for anyone needing tips on making accessible digital documents. A well-formatted Word doc supports export to accessible PDFs and Google docs for visual and nonvisual access. With an accessible document, blind people who use screenreading technology can quickly navigate and skim a document auditorially with equal efficiency as a person using visual access. This is a necessary feature for anyone preparing and sharing documents in schools, the workplace, or online and will help meet accessibility guidelines.
Format headings so that it functions as an outline of the document like this:
I. Heading 1
        A. Heading 2
        B. Heading 2
                  1. Heading 3
                  2. Heading 3
        C. Heading 2
II. Heading 1
III. Heading 1

4:05 Text formatting - Using headings styles
12:15 Image description - Adding alt text
16:30 Formatted lists