Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
Table of Contents
- Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
- Overview
- Why Make Information Accessible?
- 8 Steps
- Eight Steps to Accessibility
- 1. Text Description of Images
- How would you describe this? Example Figure 1
- Solution for Example #1
- How would you describe this? Example Figure 2
- Tips
- How to Describe Things
- 2. Use color correctly
- Color Issue #1 - Color Words
- Color Issue #2 - Color Contrast
- Poor Color Contrast
- Testing Color Contrast
- Fixing Color Contrast
- Fixing Color Contrast (cont.)
- 3. Use Slide Layouts
- Use Slide Layouts (cont.)
- 4. Use Appropriate Font Formatting
- Font Sizes and Styes
- Bold, Italic and Underline
- 5. Table Best Practices
- Diagrams
- Diagram Example
- 6. Multimedia, Animations, Flash
- Video Clips
- Audio Clips
- 7. Add document metadata
- Prompt for File Properties
- 8. Deliver in 2 Formats
- "As-is" PowerPoint Pros & Cons
- HTML Pros & Cons
- Accessibility Spectrum
- Best Strategy
- Tools
- PowerPoint Tools
- LK4 Virtual 508 Wizard
- LecShare Pro
- How Tools Will Help
- Differences between PPT Tools
- Tools will NOT help
- Known Issues & Alternatives
- Either Way…
- Summary
- Other Related Workshops
- Resources
- Questions
Text and Images from Slide
Prompt for File Properties
- Go to "Tools" menu
- Choose "Options"
- Go to "Save" tab
- Check "Prompt for file properties" checkbox
- Do this for every Office application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Excel: "General" tab, "Prompt for Workbook Properties"
- Word: Save tab, "Prompt for Document Properties"
