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Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design will give you a solid foundation on working with Styles in Word, the impact inaccessible Word documents have on those of us with disabilities and a full range of accessibility featues you can add to Word documents. Learn how to modify a Style, create a new Style, work with lists and multilevel lists, multilingual documents, Alt Text for images, optimizing a table for accessibility, adding document properties and how creating a more accessible Word document means less work when the document is converted to tagged PDF.

This book is a great resource whether you are new to accessible document design or want new ideas on how to use Styles to optimize Word documents to be accessible.




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Karen McCall, M.Ed.


Karen has been working in the field of digital accessibility for over 25 years. Her book on creating and working with accessible PDFs was first published in 2005 with subsequent updates. The fourth edition was published in 2017. She has written books on creating accessible Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and PDF forms. She is a Canadian delegate to ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) as well as the technical standards committee for plain language for the Accessible Canada Act. She has been a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services since 2009 and a Microsoft Accessibility MVP sine the category was created in 2014.


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