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Is your business ready to implement accessibility standards?

Western Training Solutions - Digital Accessibility Courses

Deadline to comply: May 1, 2025!!


The clock is ticking! By May 1, 2025, all digital documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat must comply with accessibility standards. This means ensuring your content is structured for readability, easy to navigate, and fully accessible for users with disabilities. Don’t wait until the last minute—now is the time to prepare. 



Our Digital Document Accessibility Course is designed to help professionals create documents that are both compliant and user-friendly. You’ll learn how to properly format Excel spreadsheets, structure Word documents, build accessible PowerPoint presentations, and ensure PDFs in Adobe Acrobat meet accessibility guidelines. These essential skills will make your documents more inclusive while keeping your organization on track with upcoming requirements. 


Whether you're an HR professional, educator, administrator, or business leader, this training course gives you the knowledge to meet accessibility standards with confidence. If you're looking for Excel courses, Word training, or comprehensive Microsoft training, this is the perfect opportunity to ensure your documents meet compliance standards before the deadline. 


Call: 1-204-837-4776

Email: sales@westernts.ca



Thank you for your interest in training with  Western Training Solutions.

We look forward to seeing you in class!

Micro-Courses -Speed Dating for Excel

By Christina Bower-Arsenault • October 21, 2025
Speed Dating for Excel Micro-Courses Pressed for time? We get it—there’s never enough hours in the day. If you want to master Excel functions or boost your Excel skills without committing to a full-day of training, our Micro-Courses are for you. Contact us at sales@westernts.ca or 1-204-837-4776 to learn more and book your spot. Enjoy our everyday multi-class discount and pick up a new skill in just one hour with a live, interactive instructor. We look forward to seeing you in class! #Microcourses #speeddatingforexcel #westernts #westerntrainingsolutions #Worksmarternotharder #onehouroneskill
Western Training Solutions post on going to Norway House MB to instruct and Office Refresher Course

Western Training Solutions Comes to the Client

By Christina Bower-Arsenault • September 15, 2025
WesternTS Travels! All too often we hear from businesses, and organizations that they are too remote and no trainer will come to them. Well...Western Training Solutions travels to you! Office Refresher 2025 Working for a school board is a lot of work. Having value - added training offered at your location of work, is priceless! WesternTS journeyed to Norway House in August to refresh the their school division's staff. The requested topics took two days and everyone walked away with new tips and tricks, new skills, and a clearer understanding of how some of the software actually works. Topics covered in those two days included: Using Outlook efficiently and understanding Email Etiquette Using Word's efficiencies to work smarter and not harder AI in the workplace Microsoft Forms Excel efficiencies and using introductory to intermediate skills in spreadsheets It was a packed two days but everyone learned something new and felt refreshed and ready to begin the new school year. Western Training Solutions was happy to accommodate the training. Getting to know amazing people and organizations is an added bonus for all involved! Plus, if you've never been to Norway House you're missing out on one of the most picturesque places on the planet. It is truly lovely and historic. If you are tired of hearing your location is too remote? That your group isn't large enough? Think you have to resort to "Webinars" or pre-recorded lessons from sites with no actual person to ask questions of? Stop the hamster wheel! Hop off and call 204-837-4776 or email sales@westernts.ca to discuss your training needs. We look forward to hearing from you & seeing you in class!

Why Employers Invest in Technical Training

By Christina Bower-Arsenault • September 9, 2025
Employee Training Ready to turn your team into productivity superheroes? Employee training is your secret cape. From onboarding (Think: rocket launcher for rookies) to mastering tech tricks, honing those people skills, wrangling compliance rules, and becoming product wizards—training isn’t just a checkbox. It’s how organizations shape legends, not just employees. Technical Training: In 2025, employees require technical training to keep pace with rapid technological changes, close skills gaps, and increase productivity and innovation. Such training also improves job satisfaction, confidence, retention, and helps organisations attract top talent in a competitive market. According to a Talent Canada May 2025 survey, Canadians are more likely to stay with an organization that invests in their training / upgrading / upskilling / reskilling. Keeping your talent skilled in today's ever-changing tech world is a challenge. Yearly training will ensure that existing employees are educated in new tech and are on-par with new hires, fresh from school. Call 204-837-4776 or email sales@westernts.ca to discuss your training needs. We look forward to seeing you in class!
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