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Learn the importance of creating designs with accessibility in mind.

Start here: accessibility terms and basics

Renée Meloche

Create accessible designs with tools and tricks available in Venngage's powerful, upgraded new Editor (Beta).

Accessibility Tools & Design Tips 

Use layering tools to move visual elements and text to the back or front of your design.

Layer items in an accessible design

Design accessible reports, infographics, and other projects with these easy-to-follow steps.

Create an accessible design with Venngage

Use the Visual Simulator accessibility tool to see how people with color blindness and other visual impairments perceive your design.

Simulate how color blindness and visual impairment impact design accessibility

Learn about color theory and design principles you can use to design accessible projects that are inclusive, look good and stand out.

Use color contrast to create accessible design

Ensure text, charts and other elements in your design are accessible by using patterns, spacing and contrast to clarify content.

Convey meaning without relying on color

Set the language your document is written in, to make it more accessible to tools like screen readers or PDF metadata.

Identify the document language

Use the Edit Background tool in our upgraded Editor to change, select or input the color HEX code.

Edit the background color of an accessible design

Design with Accessibility in Mind

Give your design project an accessible title, for users of assistive devices and technology.

Title your design with accessibility in mind

Learn more about using text in place of text images, and best practices for making text images more accessible to readers.

Use text instead of images of text

Consider accessibility first when writing and designing document colors and layouts.

Write and design more accessible content

Learn best practices for styling embedded links, to ensure their clarity and accessibility to readers.

Style links to make them more accessible

Add links to your content by embedding them in text, ensuring they are accessible and make sense to accessibility tools like screen readers.

Add an accessible link to text in your design

Write for Accessibility

Implement these easy-to-follow methods for writing meaningful and accessible alt text descriptions for non-text elements.

Write helpful alternative (alt) text for non-text content

Use the tools in the Venngage Editor to add alt descriptive text to elements in your design or tag them as decorative.

Tag and add alt text to elements in your design

Identify non-text elements with alt text

Learn about Reading Order, Focus Order and Meaningful Sequence and creating a logical flow for accessibility tools to "read" content.

Use Reading Order in your accessible designs and documents

Use our accessibility tools to view, manage and edit Reading Order in your accessible design.

Manage Reading Order in your Venngage design

Use headings and subtitles to create logical Reading Order and structure content, and tag them for screen readers and accessibility tools.

Create and tag headings and titles for accessibility

Create a logical Reading Order

Learn how to add a chart to your design and use different styling and labels to ensure that the data in your chart is clear and accessible.

Add a chart to your accessible design

Create a basic table on your accessible design canvas and adjust the sizing, add columns, rows and text, all in the upgraded Editor.

Add a table to your accessible design

Discover techniques, tricks and tips for using more than just color to ensure that readers understand data presented in an accessible chart.

Convey meaning in charts using more than just color

Header rows, columns, color contrast and text size make tables easier to understand and accessible to screen readers and disabled users.

Design a table the accessible way

Edit the text appearance in a table in your accessible design, with the tools in our upgraded Editor (Beta).

Edit basic table text font, color, size, line height and links

Use accessibility tools in the Venngage Editor to tag header rows and columns in a table, making them accessible to screen readers.

Add accessible header rows and columns to a table

Accessible Charts & Tables

Download an accessible design

Share your design with a link that allows others to view your accessible infographic, report, etc.