Accessibility Tools & Design Tips | Venngage Help Center

Start here: accessibility terms and basics

Learn the importance of creating designs with accessibility in mind.

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Design with Accessibility in Mind

Layer items in an accessible design

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

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Create an accessible design with Venngage

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

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Simulate how color blindness and visual impairment impact design accessibility

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

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Use color contrast to create accessible design

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

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Convey meaning without relying on color

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

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Identify the document language

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

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Edit the background color of an accessible design

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

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Write for Accessibility

Title your design with accessibility in mind

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

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Use text instead of images of text

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

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Write and design more accessible content

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

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Style links to make them more accessible

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

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Add an accessible link to text in your design

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

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Identify non-text elements with alt text

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

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

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Tag and add alt text to elements in your design

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

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Create a logical Reading Order

Use Reading Order in your accessible designs and documents

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

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Manage Reading Order in your Venngage design

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

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Create and tag headings and titles for accessibility

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

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Accessible Charts & Tables

Add a chart to your accessible design

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.

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Add a table 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.

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Convey meaning in charts using more than just color

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

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Design a table the accessible way

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

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

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

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Add accessible header rows and columns to a table

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

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Download an accessible design

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Share an accessible design

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

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