Document Accessibility
Minnesota State Accessible Document Reference Guide: Office 2013 (PDF)
The Office of Accessibility offers a reference guide for the creation of accessible Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. A reference guide for Office 2010 documents (PDF) is also available.
Microsoft Word Accessibility Quick Card (PDF)
A checklist of best practices to help ensure your Word documents are accessible. Use in conjunction with the Minnesota State Accessible Document Reference Guide.
Microsoft PowerPoint Accessibility Quick Card (PDF)
A checklist of best practices to help ensure your PowerPoint documents are accessible. Use in conjunction with the Minnesota State Accessible Document Reference Guide.
Microsoft Excel Accessibility Quick Card (PDF)
A checklist of best practices to help ensure your Excel documents are accessible. Use in conjunction with the Minnesota State Accessible Document Reference Guide.
PDF Accessibility Overview - Adobe
This guide details what is meant by accessibility in the PDF file format. It distinguishes between the accessibility features of the file format, of Adobe Acrobat DC and of the Adobe Acrobat Reader application, and how the features of the software and the file format interact to achieve accessibility for people with disabilities.
Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow
This guide provides a step-by-step method for analyzing existing PDF files and making them accessible based upon that analysis. This workflow coincides with the workflow provided in the Make Accessible Action wizard and potential issues tested for in the Accessibility Checker tool.
Acrobat Pro DC Accessible Forms and Interactive Documents
This guide describes how to use the forms tools within Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to add descriptions to form fields, tag untagged forms, set the tab order, manipulate tags and perform other PDF accessibility tasks.
Using the Accessibility Checker in Acrobat Pro DC
This guide describes the PDF accessibility checkers that are included in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Even if you generate an accessible PDF file from an authoring application such a word processor or desktop publishing program, you should then follow the steps in this guide in order to identify any items that may have been missed in the initial conversion, or to add PDF accessibility features that were not provided by the authoring tool.
PDF Accessibility Quick Card (PDF)
A checklist of best practices to help ensure your PDF documents created with Adobe Acrobat Pro are accessible.
Email - Office of Accessibility
Tips for creating accessible email.
Outlook 2013 & 2016: Creating Accessible Emails (PDF)
Email is an important communication tool for most of us. One of the unknown factors about email is that we never know who the final recipients of our messages may be. Therefore, we want to be sure that our emails can be read by anyone, including people with disabilities.