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From: Wyant, Jay (MNIT)
Date: May 21, 2013 1:50PM

Folks,

Just to give you a quick break from web-based issues, here's a question re accessible Word documents: What steps would you deem essential to creating accessible tables in Word? There are many possible steps (see the list, below), but which are essential? (References are for Word 2010)

- Assign a header row (table tools ribbon)
- Assign first column (table tools ribbon)
- "Repeat as header row at the top of each page" (via Table Properties, Row tab)
- Alt text (via Table Properties, Alt text tab)
- Bookmark (via Insert ribbon, links tab)
- Caption (References ribbon, Captions tab)

Thanks,

Jay
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