Improving Your Ally Score on Documents

  • Improving Your Ally Score on Documents

    Checklist for Improving your Ally score

    While creating website content it is crucial to consider accessibility. There are a few basic steps that should be followed in order to assure your Ally score is increased:

     

    • Add built-in Headings to document and do not skip numbers (e.g. jumping from Heading 1 to Heading 3) 
    • Use built-in List options (e.g. bullets or numbers) 
    • Links should be descriptive text 
    • Add Alt Text for all images 
    • Define Table Headers and simplify Tables as much as possible
    • Use the built-in accessibility checker                                                                            

    Circle Graph representing an Overall Accessibility Score of 92%.

     

    Helpful Information:

    Blackboard Accessibility Help Site

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/accessibility-support-for-word-c014d8b8-4ef3-4a7a-935d-295663f3343c

     

    Sample Table:

    Day of the Week

    Start Time

    End Time

    Monday

    8:05 AM

    3:05 PM

    Tuesday

    8:05 AM

    3:05 PM

    Wednesday

    10:05 AM

    3:05 PM

     

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