

This tab contains the controls that we need to insert the checkbox in Word. But these are the exception-other accessibility information should carry over cleanly. To add this type of checkbox into your Word document, you’ll need the developer tab visible on the ribbon. Decorative images will need to be hidden in older versions PowerPoint (choose "Mark as decorative" in Office 365), table headers will need to be assigned a scope, and tables with multiple levels of headers will require more significant work (which should encourage creating simpler tables when possible).

For example, a document created in Word should contain almost all the information necessary for an accessible PDF, including:Īfter the PDF conversion, some cleanup in Acrobat may still be necessary. The most popular of these tools-Microsoft Office-has good overall accessibility that continues to improve with each version. These include Microsoft Office ( Word, PowerPoint, or Excel), Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, and. Several programs support creating accessible documents keep their accessibility information intact when converted to PDF.
