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Accessible Documents Using Styles

This PDF contains a quick and easy overview on how the "styles" feature enables the design of accessible documents, as well as organized and structured documents.

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Accessible Documents Using Styles  (PDF File)

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Posted by: Angela Benfield on Mon Oct 10, 2011 at 2:23 p.m.

I personally thought the Creating Accessible Microsoft Word & WordPerfect Documents by Using Markup on Wisc site was a better write up which is explainable and easier to follow. I might move that one up and make a different overview.

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Posted by: MNstudent on Sun Oct 16, 2011 at 4:52 p.m.

This was a quick, easy read that gave some good basic tips, as well as links to tutorials.

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Posted by: phill445 on Sun Nov 22, 2020 at 7 p.m.

This is a very helpful guide that provides a good understanding of how to use the "Styles" feature for more accessible documents. This is something I plan to use in the future.

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Posted by: gmkazadi on Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 2:27 a.m.

Great tips, easy to understand and very useful . I definitely learnt something new!

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Posted by: freibe28 on Tue Nov 23, 2021 at 9:10 a.m.

I enjoyed the easy steps that were given however, the tutorials that were provided at the end of the document were not able to be accessed.

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Posted by: Ande2697@uwm.edu on Mon Nov 28, 2022 at 4:46 p.m.

I like how the resource emphasized the importance of document organization to meet the needs for readers who use AT and how the styles and formatting features can be useful in this way. However, many of the hyperlinks at the end of the resource simply did not work and need to be updated. The addbalance linked resource was able to be accessed.

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