Accessible Documentation

Documentation - user manuals, help content, installation guides, release notes, API docs - produced in a form that can be read and acted on by people with disabilities, including blind and low-vision users, users with cognitive disabilities, and Deaf users. Accessible documentation goes beyond being machine-readable by a screen reader: it uses single-column layouts, tagged PDFs that respect logical reading order, meaningful alt text on diagrams, text-based alternatives to figure callouts and exploded views, atomic single-action steps with confirmation cues, and plain language. Standards such as PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) and WCAG provide the formal requirements.