Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations


Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations

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Overview

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Why Make Information Accessible?

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8 Steps

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Eight Steps to Accessibility

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1. Text Description of Images

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How would you describe this? Example Figure 1

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Solution for Example #1

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How would you describe this? Example Figure 2

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Tips

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How to Describe Things

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2. Use color correctly

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Color Issue #1 - Color Words

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Color Issue #2 - Color Contrast

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Poor Color Contrast

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Testing Color Contrast

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Fixing Color Contrast

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Fixing Color Contrast (cont.)

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3. Use Slide Layouts

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Use Slide Layouts (cont.)

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4. Use Appropriate Font Formatting

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Font Sizes and Styes

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Bold, Italic and Underline

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5. Table Best Practices

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Diagrams

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Diagram Example

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6. Multimedia, Animations, Flash

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Video Clips

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Audio Clips

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7. Add document metadata

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Prompt for File Properties

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8. Deliver in 2 Formats

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"As-is" PowerPoint Pros & Cons

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HTML Pros & Cons

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Accessibility Spectrum

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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.


Best Strategy

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Tools

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PowerPoint Tools

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LK4 Virtual 508 Wizard

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LecShare Pro

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How Tools Will Help

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Differences between PPT Tools

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Tools will NOT help

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Known Issues & Alternatives

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Either Way…

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Summary

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Other Related Workshops

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Resources

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Questions

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