Using the simple tools within Microsoft programs to make documents accessible to a wide audience.

Course Details

Audience: All YSJ Students and staff

Format: One hour online via Microsoft Teams

Prior knowledge: None

Making documents accessible is important for everyone, not just those with visual impairments, hearing impairments and mobility limitations. As well as being best practice, new regulations are in force for all public sector bodies' websites. Learn how to make Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel Spreadsheets and PDFs accessible in a few easy steps. This course can be customised for different teams or delivered to student groups.

This course includes:

• Using the built-in accessibility checkers
• Using heading styles for structure
• Making images accessible
• Creating accessible tables
• Creating accessible hyperlinks
• Other aspects of accessibility
• PowerPoint and Excel, Accessibility
• Brief discussion of other YSJ systems

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York St John Graduate attributes

As well as other skills, knowledge and competencies gained from your  time at York St John, these attributes are designed to enable graduates to thrive in life and work.

These courses contribute particularly to the following Graduate Attributes:

Confident

• Communicate, in a range of formats and for different audiences
• Confident in your skills and aspirational in setting goals for the future

Authentic

• Engaged with relevant technology and using it in a socially responsible way

Resilient

• Able to adapt to technological change and agile in approach to learning

Enterprising

• Aware of resources and able to utilise these to support personal and professional development

Professional

• Knowledgeable, evidence led and intellectually curious