Make your Visio diagrams accessible to everyone
The accessibility of your Visio diagrams should never be an afterthought. It’s an everyday necessity for all types of visual data users, such as project managers and business analysts, who experience vision loss, as well as other impairments.
While Microsoft Visio offers a great range of accessibility features, it can’t always provide a seamless experience. Fortunately, with the right customisations, you can change this.
In this free guide, we’ll show you how to
- How to follow best practice guidelines for Visio accessibility
- How to ensure the best contrast between text and background colours
- How to manipulate the navigation order and automate the narrated alt-title and description
We’ll walk you through each of these steps (and a few others) to help you unlock the full accessibility of Microsoft Visio in the desktop and online.
Download your guide now to ensure everyone in your team gets the most from their Visio experience.
My sessions at MS Ignite the Tour 2020 London
I was pleased to present two sessions at London ExCel last week about Visio. Attendance was good, maybe too good because some could not get close enough to hear. There was a lot of background noise, and my presentations were too long for the 15 minutes slot, but content was eagerly received. I told everyone…
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Visio Accessibility Guide and Webinar
Get a free downloadable guide to accessibility in Visio desktop and for the web and watch a webcast!
Testing Visio shape text for WCAG 2.0 pass
The Web Content Access Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 provides the current recommendations for making web content accessible to users with vision impairment, but how do you test if your Visio shapes pass?
Narrated Text in Visio for Accessibility
Every Visio shape can have its own alternative text title and description, but it is too time consuming to edit manually, so learn how to automate them!
Understanding Visio Navigation Order
Learn how to set the tab or navigation order in a Visio diagram for accessibility in the web.
Formatting SharePoint Columns with RGB Color
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