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Design and Output MS Word: Tables and Accessibility

We hope you had a lovely Easter break. The last blog post (pre-Easter) was on the theme of Tabs and Accessibility in MS Word. This week, we would like to elaborate on the use of Tables. It would appear tables fall out of and into vogue from time to time. Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years12th April 2021 ago
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Accessibility: PowerPoint Design & Output – 2

Good afternoon and we hope you’re well. Last week, Digiknow looked at best practices in design from an MS PowerPoint viewpoint and explained the reasons behind each decision with design and accessibility in mind. We looked at: text font type, space, amount and alignment 5/5/5 rule colour and contrast layout Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years1st March 2021 ago
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Visual Content and Best Practice

In this week’s DigiKnow blog, we look at visual content, accessibility and best practice. Visual content can be used in digital documents, slides, PDFs, etc., on the Internet or in social media posts. What is visual content? It’s anything that conveys information to your audience that isn’t in the form Read more…

By Daria Casement, 4 years24th February 2020 ago
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MS PowerPoint – Adding Media Content

In last weeks DigiKnow blog, we looked at design and best practice when using PowerPoint. We covered the 5/5/5 rule for text and the 3/3/3 rule for font, colour and layout options. This week, we will demonstrate how to add in different types of media content and ensure it is Read more…

By Daria Casement, 4 years10th February 2020 ago

MS Word Accessibility – The Accessibility Checker

On the last DigiKnow post of the week for the MS Word Accessibility series, we look at the Accessibility Checker in MS Word. The good news is MS Word has an Accessibility Checker. The bad news is it might need to be added to the Toolbar. Today we decided on Read more…

By Daria Casement, 4 years31st January 2020 ago
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