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Creating Accessible Excel Spreadsheets (macOS)

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Add Alternative Text (Alt. Text) to Images, Shapes, and Graphs in Excel

Right-click on the Image, Shape, or Graph

For this article, I will show how to add Alt text using an (SNHU) image.  

The menu from right selecting the image.

Select Edit “Alt. Text ….”

"Edit Alt Text" button from the drop-down menu.

Describe the Image, Shape, or Graph

Alt. text box with the words “the SNHU logo” entered.

In this example, you could say, “The SNHU logo.” If the image shape or icon is only "decorative," then put a check mark in the box "Mark as decorative" to let the screen reader and user know that image is not important content.

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Run the Accessibility Checker in Excel

Select "Review"

Excel "Review" ribbon button.

Select "Checker Accessibility"

Excel "Check Accessibility" button.

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Add Accessible Properties to Excel Sheets

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