Creating Accessible Documents

Creating Accessible Documents

• NCDAE Cheatsheets - These one-page accessibility resources, or “cheatsheets,” have been developed to assist anyone who is creating accessible content, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF conversion, and Adobe.

• Accessible templates for Office - Pre-made templates or create your own.

• Online OCR - Use Optical Character Recognition to extract text from PDF and images (JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF) and convert into editable Word, Excel and Text output formats.

• Math and science accessibility - Equations, formulas, and graphing

• How to Describe Images - A comprehensive resource that details best practices that apply when writing a description for any image, including context, audience, layout, function, and tone. There are additional guidelines specific to particular types of complex images such as graphs, maps, diagrams, math, art, etc.

• Accessible table builder - Use the wizard to help create accessible tables.

• RoboBraille - Follow the four easy steps below to have your document converted into an alternative, accessible format.
  

Microsoft Word

• Make your Word documents accessible

• Creating Accessible Documents
  

Microsoft PowerPoint

• Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible

• PowerPoint Accessibility
  

Microsoft Excel

• Make your Excel spreadsheets accessible
  

Adobe Acrobat

• Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow - Adobe provides in-depth instructions with helpful screenshots for moving through the Make Accessible Wizard.

• Acrobat and Accessibility