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- [Instructor] Before you send an email,

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run the Accessibility Checker

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to make sure that your content

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is easy for all of your recipients to view.

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The Accessibility Checker is available

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not just here in Outlook

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but in other Microsoft Office applications, like Word,

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so you may already know it from there.

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When I'm in a message form like this,

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I have Check Accessibility easily available to me.

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Simply click Options.

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Check Accessibility is found in Proofing.

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And I click and it says I have a problem.

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Inline images, like the image here,

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must have alt text because it's used by screen readers.

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There's a link right here that lets me fix this.

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If I click Fix This, Add Alternate Text.

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And this is an image of solar panels and a sunflower.

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Okay.

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I don't have to mark up that that's alt text

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because the Accessibility Checker

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is doing that for me when I fix it.

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You don't even see the alt text,

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but it exists.

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And if I want to check that it's there,

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I can right click the image,

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choose Add Alternative Text,

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and here it is.

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As with a hyperlink, this is just one extra step

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to make the documents and messages

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that we're sharing with people

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more accessible to everyone.