Introduction to making accessible documents: September 2025

‘Accessibility’ means making your work available to the widest possible audience by considering the needs of many possible users. It is especially important for readers with disability, but accessible communications are clearer, more focused and more direct, and benefit every reader.

This practical, interactive online course will give you tips and tricks to create accessible tables and figures, and write and structure text to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) international standards.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• explain why accessible documents are useful, and how accessibility features can be readily implemented with little extra effort

• make documents that meet the relevant WCAG standards (for example, the Australian Government mandates that agencies comply with WCAG 2.2 Level AA)

• make tables and graphics that are accessible

• use Word styles to improve document accessibility

• write text that is easy to read and understand.

The details

The course runs on Tuesday 23 September 2025 via Teams:

• 10:00 to 15:00 (with an hour for breaks; Australian Eastern Standard Time).

If you'd like to buy 4 or more tickets, contact us for a discount code.

If you'd like to talk to us about running the course specifically for your organisation, contact us.

About Biotext

Biotext is a team of content experts, specialising in scientific and complex information. We are content strategists, content designers, writers, editors and visual designers who turn complex information into compelling, accessible communication. To complement this course, we offer training in writing and editing complex content, data literacy and visualisation and effective infographics.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this course or if you would like to book a custom course for your organisation.