ENG 311 Central Washington University Wk 7 The Accessibility Check Discussion

This assignment include one Initial post and two responses posts.

The Accessibility Check feature in Microsoft Word is a helpful tool to measure the level of accessibility in your document and the items that can be improved. For example, you may have attempted to include descriptive headings and subheadings in your business prospectus, but unless you’ve formatted every heading using MS Word’s headings feature, the document is NOT accessible. In other words, your document is not readable or scannable, will not display properly for screen readers (ie. not usable or accessible), and the headings cannot be used to generate a table of contents.

Steps for this week:

1. Open a copy of your business prospectus in MS Word.
2. Enable accessibility check in your version of MS Word. You may have to search for the setting depending on your version of Word; for example, in my version of MS Word for iOS (macbook), I had to click on Tools -> Check Accessibility.
3. Take a screen shot of the accessibility check from MS Word and share it with the class (example image download), along with your reflection. Answer two or more of the following: What do the results show in terms of the accessibility of your prospectus? Did you find any of the results surprising? How and where can you improve (before the final prospectus is due)? How might you see yourself using the accessibility tool in the future?