5: Make Your Own Workplace Accessible

Various logos of accessibility resources such as braille, closed captioning, and sign language

Caption: Some accessibility requires specialized tools and resources, but often, making electronic information accessible is as simple as writing clearly and thinking twice before sending.

Are there other ways we can make electronic information accessible?

  • Formatting documents for accessibility is not just the responsibility of the people who put things on the website, all employees who create electronic information resources should learn how to create them so that they are accessible.
  • Format your documents using document structures such as headings, subheadings, paragraphs, lists, and consistent layout.
  • Write clear, concise paragraphs, and emphasize important points.
  • Use standard resizable fonts and avoid distracting graphics, hidden text, and unimportant information.
  • Describe complex graphs in text or data tables.
  • Use alternate text to describe graphics.
  • Do not use flashing graphics, which are distracting and can trigger migraines or seizures.
  • Provide a text transcript of multimedia.

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