Creating Accessible Microsoft Excel Documents
Course Overview:
Your team will learn how to create Excel files that are accessible to users with a range of disabilities. You’ll be guided through the process, from selecting a template to creating an accessible Excel file for distribution. Creating accessible Excel files will become part of the way you create and share tabular data.
Learning Objectives
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Create acessible templates
Learn how to create an accessible Excel template. -
Create accessible tables
Learn how to create and format accessible tables. -
Use the accessibility checker
Learn how to use the accessibility checker to review and remediate your work. -
Create accessible forms in Excel
Learn how to create accessible Excel forms in the advanced version of this training.
Audience:
This training is primarily intended for anyone responsible for creating Excel documents and is applicable to a wide audience.
Time estimate:
This training typically takes one hour for the basic level training and one hour and a half for the advanced level training.
Topics covered:
During the basic level of this training, we typically cover the following topics:
- Accessible templates
- Accessibility checker
- Filenames and properties
- Organizing worksheets
- Creating accessible tables
- Titles, headers, and footers
- Spacing and peripheral columns/rows
- Text formatting and color contrast
- Links
- Help text and ScreenTips
- Print area
During the advanced level of this training, we typically cover the following topics:
- All of the topics included in basic level above
- Creating accessible forms
- Creating accessible images, charts, and graphs
- Final checks
- Exporting to PDF
Frequently Asked Questions
We’re here to help you achieve better digital accessibility. If you can’t find an answer you need, please contact us.
Our team makes training recommendations based on your unique needs and project timeline. We incorporate training strategically, weaving sessions into your project, so that your teams have the skills they need when they need them, making an immediate impact. Building skills in-house throughout our engagement sets you up for continued success.
As many as you’d like! We don’t limit participants, because as educators, our goal is to build your organization’s skills. We open up our training to your entire team, so you have the help you need to sustain accessibility across your organization.
Of course you can! As you train with us, you can develop your own internal training library, which can serve as a resource for your current and future employees.
Yes, we can work with your vendor! We recommend training be provided in the most accessible format possible and will work directly with your caption provider to implement. If you don’t have a caption provider, we can make recommendations.
Talk to an expert about your accessibility needs.
We’re excited to partner with you to help your organization reach, engage and serve more people, more fully.
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