How to make easy read documents accessible

Easy read documents that we add to our websites should be created in Microsoft Word.

• How to make your Word document accessible
• How to create an easy read layout in Word

You can also use Adobe InDesign if you have access to this software for your role.

• Adobe's guide on creating accessible PDFs using InDesign
• Accessible PDFs basics articles (go to the InDesign specific tutorials section)
• University of Sussex guide on creating accessible InDesign documents

Don't use PowerPoint

Easy read trainers and providers often promote PowerPoint as the preferred tool for creating easy read documents. This is because it's easy to arrange images and text boxes in an easy read layout in PowerPoint.

However, we do not upload PowerPoint files (or PDFs of PowerPoint files) to our websites. Our guidance explains why we don't add PowerPoint files to our website.