Templates for Word and Google Docs
Documents ready for every way people read.
Agendas, minutes, notices and reports for councils, schools, libraries and nonprofits. Built to meet WCAG 2.2 AA, so they work with screen readers, zoom and high contrast.
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Why these templates
Pass Word's accessibility checker
Every file, before it ships. Real headings, real lists, tables with header rows.
Open cleanly in Google Docs
One set of Word files that works in Word, Word for the web and Google Docs.
Nothing to strip out
Guidance lives in a separate Read me first file, so no instructions end up posted.
Template kits
Free to download and use. No signup, no account.
Meeting agenda & minutes kit
Agenda, minutes, meeting notice and agenda item summary templates for councils, boards and committees, with a guide to what to check against your state's open-meetings rules. Word files that also open in Google Docs.
Four Word templates, a filled-in sample and a Read me first guide (zip)
Public notice & flyer kit
Event flyer, closure notice and public hearing notice templates, plus post and email text so the key facts are never only in a picture. Large type for posting. Word files that also open in Google Docs.
Four Word templates, a filled-in sample and a Read me first guide (zip)
Report & policy document kit
Report, policy and procedure templates, with a table of contents that Word for the web can update, policy clauses you can cite by number, and data tables for results and finances. Word files that also open in Google Docs.
Three Word templates, a filled-in sample and a Read me first guide (zip)
Also free: a ten-point checklist
Ten checks for any Word or Google Docs file before you post or send it. Two pages, no training needed.
Accessible document quick checklist
Writing for dyslexic readers? Our free dyslexia resources have a guide and two Word templates for easier-to-read documents.
Who makes these
Brian Stoffer has spent more than 30 years leading digital work in higher education and agencies. He is Associate Vice President of Website Development and Digital Marketing at Academy of Art University, where he leads the web team and directs the university’s website redesign. Before that he led a $2M redesign and replatforming at Smith College and a 20,000-page CMS migration at Mount Holyoke College. Accessibility has been part of that work throughout, and it’s the focus of AccessiblePress.
The views on this site are his own, not those of Academy of Art University.