Accessibility means equality of access to information. A source of information, whether a text document or an online service, should be equally easily accessed by all.
The University’s publications in Osuva must be accessible. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure accessibility by
Template has ready-made styles in the Quick Style menu, such as Body and different heading levels.
Add an alternative text to patterns and images, i.e., alt text. The alternative text tells the reader the essential content of the image. It is not the same as the caption, and the information in the text does not need to be repeated but can be referenced.
Colors can be used, but they must not be the only way to convey information.
In the photo below, colors with sufficient contrast on a white background are circled from the default colors of Word.
Please note that you will have to check the contrast if, for example, in the table or figure, other colors have been used.
Use tables only when you need them to present data. Avoid tables with only the purpose of layout.
You can check the reading order of the table by moving from one cell to another with the tabulator. The table header row is the top row, and it must be set on repeat (Repeat Header Row).
First, check the accessibility of the file in the word processing program.
Make your documents accessible to users with disabilities. The word processing program does not know which text you have intended as a title and which is plain text if no styles have been used, i.e. those errors are not reported by the checking tool.
From the File - Properties menu, check that the name is the same as the name of the thesis (no subtitle) and that the author is your own name.
The computers in the university's computer classes have PDF-XChange, which can be used to convert a finished PDF file into PDF/A format.
For paid software for processing PDF files, you can use a free trial, such as Serif Labs Affinity Designer or Adobe Acrobat Pro.
