Making your report accessible
What you will learn in this chapter
- The basics of writing an accessible report.
Accessibility concerns
It’s important to make sure your report is accessible. It’s popular to publish reports in PDF, but they cause accessibility problems. At Scope, we now recommend that HTML is the best format to make your reports accessible. Any downloads should be a Word document.
Your report should have:
- headings and subheadings
- alternative text for images
- accessible graphs
- good colour contrast
- meaningful link texts
When you cite sources, they should be a meaningful link text. You should note use footnotes. And you should note use reference systems such as Harvard.
The report should also be in plain English, with short sentences.
Scope for business has free articles available to support you with this.
A beginner’s guide to digital accessibility
The 4 principles of content accessibility
7 easy ways to make your content more accessible
How to make your Word documents more accessible
HTML tag structure and website accessibility
How to write alt-text descriptions for image accessibility
How to write hyperlink text for better web accessibility
How to improve your writing with plain English
Swap the corporate jargon for these accessible alternatives
We also offer content accessibility training.