TRANSCRIPT OF UNDERSTANDING THE ACCESSIBILITY CHECKER

Creating a document or presentation with accessibility guidelines in 
mind helps ensure that your content is available to all of your 
students, but sometimes it's helpful to have a tool that will check 
behind you to make sure you haven't missed something.

Microsoft Office's Accessibility Checker can help you by verifying that 
the content in your document or presentation follows accessibility 
guidelines. Before we explore the Accessibility Checker, it's important
to understand that it won't read your document for quality of content, 
nor will it check color contrast, but it will let me know other useful 
information, such as when I might need a heading, if I've included a URL 
instead of a descriptive hyperlink, or if an image is missing an 
alternative text.

To locate the Accessibility Checker, click File, Check for Issues, then 
Check Accessibility. A pane appears on the right [of a Word document]. 
The accessibility checker categorizes its results into errors, warnings, 
and tips, and when you click on an item, Microsoft offers an explanation 
[farther down the right pane] as to why that item is problematic.

Try to address everything that the accessibility checker finds. When 
you're done working with the results of the accessibility checker, click 
the X to close the pane.

As you become more familiar with it, you might find that this tool can 
be a great way to make sure you haven't missed something in your 
document or presentation.