Create Accessible Documents Series: Make Your MS Word Documents Accessible
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MAKE YOUR DOCUMENTS WORK FOR EVERYONE: MICROSOFT WORD
Your registration includes a hands-on tech help lab on October 21.
Your document may look perfect—but can everyone read it, navigate it, and understand it?
Join Lidia Durando, Founder of Make It Accessible (MIA), for a practical workshop on creating more accessible Microsoft Word documents.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own fully charged laptop to the workshop so they can follow along in Microsoft Word on their own device and reinforce what they’re learning in real time.
WE’LL COVER:
• Why document accessibility matters
• What assistive technologies are and how people use them
• Heading structure and document organization
• Making images and other objects accessible
• Colour and contrast
• Setting accessible default features
• Using Microsoft Word’s Accessibility Checker
• Practical accessibility tips you can apply immediately
Take away: The knowledge and tools to create more accessible Word documents from the start.
HANDS-ON TECH HELP LAB — INCLUDED WITH YOUR REGISTRATION
October 21 | 6:00–7:30 PM
Return for a hands-on practice lab where you can apply what you’ve learned to your own Word documents with instructor coaching and guidance.
Bring your fully charged laptop and Microsoft Word files. You’ll have the opportunity to create or revise your own documents, ask questions, and get practical help as you work.
REQUIRED FOR ATTENDANCE
Participants must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and have Microsoft Word already installed on the laptop or computer they bring to the workshop and hands-on lab.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Small & Medium Businesses
Make your customer communications, forms, reports, and business documents more inclusive.
Teachers & Educators
Create learning materials and documents that are accessible to more students.
Trainers & Professionals
Make the documents you share with colleagues and clients more accessible.
Organizations & Community Groups
Build accessibility into everyday communication—not as an afterthought, but from the beginning.
MEET YOUR TRAINER
Lidia Durando
Accessibility Consultant • Trainer • Founder, Make It Accessible
Lidia is an award-winning accessibility professional with more than 15 years of experience in information technology, training, and accessibility leadership. She brings extensive real-world experience to accessibility training, making complex concepts practical, understandable, and achievable.
• Former Accessibility and Inclusion Lead with the Ontario Public Service, Treasury Board Secretariat
• Delivered accessibility training to more than 15,000 Ontario public servants
• More than 10 years of experience implementing accessibility requirements, including the AODA and IASR
• Helped organizations develop practical and sustainable accessibility programs
• Recipient of multiple Ontario Public Service awards
• Trusted accessibility advisor and founder of Make It Accessible
“Accessibility doesn’t have to be complicated. Let’s make it simple, clear, and accessible.”
ABOUT THE SERIES
Three workshops. Three practical topics. Each workshop includes its own hands-on tech help lab.
Participants may register for the topics that interest them. Separate registration is required for each workshop.
October 14 — Microsoft Word
Hands-on lab: October 21
October 28 — Microsoft PowerPoint
Hands-on lab: November 4
November 18 — Microsoft Excel
Hands-on lab: November 25
Don’t just create documents—create accessible documents.
Three workshops. Practical skills. Real-world tools.
Learn it. Apply it. Make it accessible.
Presented by Make It Accessible (MIA)
