Welcome to the start of a blog series exploring accessibility features, and creating accessible content in Office applications!

Why are we focussing on Office Applications?嗯，因为它们通常在工作场所、学生和个人使用。而且，因为教职员工和学生都可以通过学院访问 Office 应用程序！

跨 Office 应用程序的无障碍最佳实践

有一些特定于某些应用的可用最佳实践（我们承诺将在以后的帖子中探讨这些最佳实践）。

This blog post is going to outline some of the more commonly used (or missed) Accessible Best Practices that can be applied in a variety of Office Applications!

Tables

• 如果表格跨越多个页面，则需要重复表格标题
• 使用表格标题 - 解释表格中的数据显示的内容
• Tables need to work (convey the information) on all platforms – phones, computers, tablets

Learn how to create tables following Accessible Best Practices:

Now if you checked these links out, you’d see it’s recommended that you present the data in another way… Perhaps, in a list?…

列表

• Use actual lists! Don’t just add a–or type1. – these are not actual lists and will not be read as a list by any screen reading or read aloud technologies
• 使用内置列表格式
  • 有序 - 数字或字母
  • 无序 – 符号，如要点
• Capitalize the first word of every list item

Learn how to create

Text

• 避免italics
• Avoid ALL CAPS
• 保存链接的下划线格式
• 考虑使用深灰色字体颜色（而不是黑色）
• Chunk or group information (avoid a “wall of text”)

了解.

Language

• Use simple, clear and concise language
  • Don’t use unnecessarily complex words
  • “Get to the point” – say what you mean using as few of words that makes sense
  • 请使用不会让您的意思变得混乱的词语...就像那句话...使用能让您的信息清晰的词语
• 避免“能力歧视”语言，或假设某人能力的语言
  • Instead of “I am just going to run over there” use “I am just going over there”
• 使用缩写时，请确保至少定义该缩写一次

色彩对比度

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关于颜色的旁注：颜色永远不应该单独使用来传达信息。

Learn about accessible color contrast of text:

图片

• Images must have alternative text (alt. text)
  • Alt. Text needs to be meaningful and describe what the image is/why is is included?
  • 只有纯粹装饰性的图片（例如：设计元素）才可以标记为装饰性
  • 保留备用。文本少于 150 个字符（需要时使用图像描述）
• 使用图像描述是替代项。文字变得太长
• 图像必须具有良好的质量（不模糊或像素化），即使放大时也是如此！
• Don’t overuse images

Need help writing alt. text or image descriptions?使用这个as a starting point! You’ll need to verify the output add any necessary context.

其他资源

By chance, are you an instructor at the College? If you are, make sure you check out the “Instructors Guide to Accessible Courses” Tutorial in LEARN! If you are not already enrolled, you can self-enroll through the My Learning section in HRIS.