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LevelDocs updates 2025

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Welcome to LevelDocs — your go-to add-in for creating accessible content with ease. This tool empowers content creators to produce accessible documents without needing deep expertise in accessibility standards or word-processing techniques.

Note: Each LevelDocs release contains multiple add-ins, which might have different version numbers.  Always download the latest version of an add-in. 

 

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2025.5.0

PowerPoint add-in: Automatic contrast detection and guided remediation

LevelDocs for PowerPoint now automatically detects contrast issues on all slides. Findings are accessible through the LevelDocs Color Contrast panel. They specify:

  • Slide number

  • Element type and location, for example, whether the element is a text box or a shape

To adjust colors:

  1. Select detected element.

  2. Use the eyedropper tool (color contrast sampler) to adjust colors.

2025.4.0

Ability to download the LevelDocs installers from the platform

If your organization has purchased a LevelDocs license, you can now download the LevelDocs installers directly from the Level Access Platform. Log in to the LA Platform, navigate to the organizational level, select Tools & Integrations, go to Tools & Extensions, and locate LevelDocs. Download the installer, save it to your local machine, and run it. Open the application for which you installed the add-in, and verify that the LevelDocs option appears in the ribbon. 

All successful downloads are logged for audit purposes. For details, go to Installing and activating LevelDocs. 

New add-in: LevelDocs for MS Excel

We’ve released  LevelDocs for MS Excel — an accessibility-focused add-in designed specifically for Excel spreadsheets. The add-in brings the same powerful features found in LevelDocs for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. The add-in is optimized to support and enhance the accessibility of Excel content.

Known limitations: 

  • This version of the add-in for MS Excel does not support a validation report, centralized configuration settings, or accessible PDF file export. 

  • Within tables, the add-in currently supports only a single header row or column. 

  • Users must explicitly define relevant ranges as tables to ensure proper support by assistive technologies (AT).

Updated digital signing certificate

We’ve enhanced the security of our Microsoft Word Add-in installer by signing it with the Level Access Extended Validation (EV) Certificate. This update removes previous branding and provides users with clear assurance that the software is authentically published by Level Access. 

2025.3.0

New Add-in: LevelDocs for PowerPoint

We’ve released LevelDocs for PowerPoint. The add-in has the same powerful features found in LevelDocs for Microsoft Word. Use it to optimize the accessibility of slide-based content in your presentations. 

Removed legacy and unused UI elements

We’ve cleaned up the interface by removing the following tabs, menus, and configuration options:

  • Merge/Split menu from the application toolbar.

  • Built-in Controls tab from the Settings dialog

  • Remove Empty Lines option from Accessibility Wizard > Document Settings. This functionality is now handled automatically during PDF conversion. 

  • Use Alternate PDF Export (Apryse) option from Settings > PDF tab

These changes do not affect  existing functionality. 

2025.2.0

Performance and user interface optimization 

We've fixed a few performance issues and user interface bugs. 

Enhanced auto-tagging batch operation adds descriptions to tables and images that lack them

LevelDocs for MS Word has an automatic function that adds descriptions to tables and images, if they do not already have a meaningful description.

We’ve now integrated this function in to the auto-tagging batch operation, for all the tables and images in the document. Existing table or image descriptions are skipped, and not overwritten.

2025.1.0

LevelDocs for MS Word add-in

 We've released our LevelDocs for Microsoft Word add-in. The add-in has the following features: 

  • Support for global accessibility standards: Includes WCAG standards, levels AA and AAA.
  • Built-in wizards: They guide you through and automate accessibility checks in your document—no prior accessibility expertise required.
  • Main toolbar: Allows you to manually fix accessibility issues.
  • Automation with control: Batch processing, rule-based tagging, and smart validation, with the possibility of manual reviews, if needed. Use the batch-processing engine to auto-remediate common accessibility issues (headings, tables, hyperlinks), and thus ensure faster authoring workflows.
  • Nested table tagging: Advanced tagging capability for nested tables and complex documents.
  • Reporting: Extended validation report allows you to identify and correct remaining accessibility errors. Enriched with direct references to major accessibility standards, such as WCAG 2.1, PDF/UA), the report offers clearer, standards-aligned guidance.
  • Accessible output: Ability to generate and export accessible output to a folder of your choice, with or without markup and revision data.
  • Accessible stamps: Ability to select predefined accessibility stamps and add them to your generated output.
  • Configurable organizational policy: Configure a default accessibility policy for your organization.

  • Hotkeys: Use LevelDocs keyboard shortcuts to perform common actions quickly.

     

     

     

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