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Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations

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

Accessibility Spectrum

"As-is"<br />PPT + HTML

HTML

"As-is" PPT

MORE ACCESSIBLE

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Lecture Notes

Diagram shown on slide represents an arrow containing file types and their relative accessibility. At the tip of the arrow, representing the most accessible way of distributing PowerPoint, is "As-Is" PPT + HTML. Slightly less accessible is the native HTML version. The least accessible is "As-Is" PPT, standing on its own.

Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations

Table of Contents

Text and Images from Slide

Lecture Notes