By using built-in accessibility features and following good authoring practices, we can create content accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.
Explore these resources to learn how to create inclusive Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Outlook emails, and other Microsoft Office content.
Microsoft Office Accessibility
Microsoft Support Topics
Make your content accessible to everyone – Microsoft’s accessibility resources and tools to make your content accessible for all to support the disability community as allies.
- Accessibility training videos and how-to guides
- Free templates that help you make your content accessible to everyone and guidance for creating your own accessible templates.
- Free tools available in Microsoft products to improve reading and writing skills.
- Office product-specific accessibility tips for making your content accessible to all.
- Accessibility capabilities in Office 365
- Disability Answer Desk
- Windows 11 accessibility help
Microsoft Accessibility Features – interactive list of accessibility features available on Windows 11 and Office 365.
Microsoft Education Courses – Microsoft Education offers several free online courses related to accessibility, many of which are included in the Inclusive Classroom Learning Path.
Printable Accessibility Resources for Microsoft Products
- Empowerment begins with inclusion – Poster highlighting built-in accessibility capabilities and best practices across Office 365.
- Reimagine creating accessible content for everyone with Microsoft in Education – Tips for enabling students to use multiple learning modalities when creating and accessing Office content.
- Do’s and don’ts of creating accessible content
Accessibility Checker
Product-specific guidance
Word
- Make your Word documents accessible to people with disabilities – Microsoft’s step-by-step instructions with pictures and links to relevant documentation.
- Create more accessible Word documents – Microsoft’s accessibility video training.
- Word Cheatsheets – NCDAE’s one-page accessibility resources to assist anyone creating accessible content, especially less-technical users.
- Accessibility support for Word – Microsoft help articles for assistive technology users.
PowerPoint
- Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities – Microsoft’s step-by-step instructions with pictures and links to relevant documentation.
- Create more accessible PowerPoint slides – Microsoft’s accessibility video training.
- PowerPoint Cheatsheets – NCDAE’s one-page accessibility resources to assist anyone creating accessible content, especially less-technical users.
- Accessibility support for PowerPoint – Microsoft help articles for assistive technology users.
- These resources address both the accessibility of presentation materials and inclusive presentation practices:
Excel
- Make your Excel documents accessible to people with disabilities – Microsoft’s step-by-step instructions with pictures and links to relevant documentation.
- Create more accessible Excel workbooks – Microsoft’s accessibility video training.
- Excel Cheatsheets – NCDAE’s one-page accessibility resources to assist anyone creating accessible content, especially less-technical users.
- Accessibility support for Excel –Microsoft help articles for assistive technology users.