Editing MS Word Accessibility Best Practices (section)

== Charts ==

'''Any chart is really just one object for the purposes of compliance.''' (Unlike tables, for example, which are objects containing rows, which are each objects that in turn contains cells, which again are more objects which then fork into two flavors: header and data.) 

'''Compliance for charts is simply a matter of providing alternate text.''' A complicated chart may require equally wordy alternate text, which may be a chore on the content side, but once the content is finalized, assigning the text to the chart is always just a matter of dropping that content in -- whatever it might be -- as the alternate text.

To enter alternate text for a chart:

''Right click on the chart'' > '''Format Chart Area''' > '''Chart Options''' > '''Alternate Text tab'''

Alternate text for an image:

''Select the figure'' > '''right click''' > '''Format Picture''' > '''Alt Text tab''' > ''enter the Alternative Text content''

All graphics and text within the chart should be consolidated into one object for the purposes of assigning alternate text. 

* '''TK''' specific examples within Word.
* '''TK''' Take into account imported graphics and other ways of creating a chart or chart-like object that don’t employ Word's built-in chart objects.