{"id":35350,"date":"2025-12-16T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=35350"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:37:38","slug":"digital-accessibility-made-easy-built-in-tools-for-microsoft-and-adobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/digital-accessibility-made-easy-built-in-tools-for-microsoft-and-adobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Accessibility Made Easy: Built-in Tools for Microsoft and Adobe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that most of the tools you already use\u2014like Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Adobe Acrobat\u2014have built-in accessibility checkers? These tools help you spot and fix issues that could make your content hard to use for people with disabilities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Justice requires state agencies to meet specific technical standards for digital accessibility. Using an accessibility checker is an easy first step toward compliance and inclusion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Get Started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Office:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/improve-accessibility-with-the-accessibility-checker-a16f6de0-2f39-4a2b-8bd8-5ad801426c7f\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/improve-accessibility-with-the-accessibility-checker-a16f6de0-2f39-4a2b-8bd8-5ad801426c7f\">Improve accessibility with the Accessibility Checker<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adobe Acrobat:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/acrobat\/using\/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/acrobat\/using\/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html\">Create and verify PDF accessibility<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Tutorials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-word-documents-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-d9bf3683-87ac-47ea-b91a-78dcacb3c66d\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-word-documents-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-d9bf3683-87ac-47ea-b91a-78dcacb3c66d\">Microsoft Word guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/accessibility-best-practices-with-excel-spreadsheets-6cc05fc5-1314-48b5-8eb3-683e49b3e593\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/accessibility-best-practices-with-excel-spreadsheets-6cc05fc5-1314-48b5-8eb3-683e49b3e593\">Microsoft Excel guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-powerpoint-presentations-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-6f7772b2-2f33-4bd2-8ca7-dae3b2b3ef25\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-powerpoint-presentations-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-6f7772b2-2f33-4bd2-8ca7-dae3b2b3ef25\">Microsoft Powerpoint guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-outlook-email-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-71ce71f4-7b15-4b7a-a2e3-cf91721bbacb\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-outlook-email-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-71ce71f4-7b15-4b7a-a2e3-cf91721bbacb\">Microsoft Outlook guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-sharepoint-site-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-53707eb5-b7b8-4ee0-ae82-9d4d916f7fe1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-sharepoint-site-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-53707eb5-b7b8-4ee0-ae82-9d4d916f7fe1\">Microsoft Sharepoint guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for helping build a more accessible world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the tools you already use\u2014like Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Adobe Acrobat\u2014have built-in accessibility checkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":33248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[13],"tags":[36],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35354,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions\/35354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35350"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=35350"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=35350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}