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Disability monitoring toolkit Chapter 14

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

Colour contrast 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.

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We believe partnerships can help us build a more inclusive and accessible society. One where disabled people experience equality and fairness.

To do this, we partner with organisations to work on larger strategic goals together. For wider social change. For their customers. For their clients. For their employees.

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