OAT Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design

Open Access Technologies version of the self-paced online course

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This iteration of the Styles in Word online course is customized for clients of Open Access Technologies, Inc (OAT). Clients will have a code or specific URL with the code to enroll in the course as their enrollment is pre-paid.

This self-paced online course is the equivalent of 10 hours of training on how to create more accessible Word documents. Although Office 365/Office 2016 is used for the training, the tools are available in previous versions of Word. This course includes a copy of the book "Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design" and sample documents as well as documents you can work on. There are over 65 short videos covering all of the topics in the book as well as material I just can't fit into a regular 6 hour face to face workshop.


Your Instructor


Karen McCall, M.Ed.
Karen McCall, M.Ed.

Karen wrote the first book on creating and working with tagged PDF documents (2005) and the first book on creating and remediating more accessible Word documents (2005). Her PDF book is currently in its fourth edition (2017). There have been several iterations of the Word book, the latest, "Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design" was published in 2017.In 2018, she published "Accessible Fillable PDF forms".

Karen has been a Microsoft MVP for Word since 2009 and a Microsoft Accessibility MVP since the additional category was created in 2014. Until August 2018, she was a Canadian delegate to the ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) committees for over 8 years.

Content in this course is copyright Karen McCall.


Course Curriculum


  Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design
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  Templates and Themes
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  The Basics of Styles in Word
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  Heading Styles are Navigational Points
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  Alt Text and Images
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  Bullets, Numbering and Multilevel Lists
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  Links
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  Tables and Columns
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  Document Properties and Accessibility Checker
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  Converting a Word Document to Tagged PDF
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  Appendix
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