Strategies
- Mind mapping for presentations
- Keynote shows equations on Mac
- Linearise layout of tables and presentations
- Changing font and icon sizes in Windows
- Laptop and large fonts to make notes
- Microsoft PowerPoint content divided up
- Colours for Presentations
- Microsoft PowerPoint for summarising
- PowerPoint for structuring written work
- Live Messenger for discussions about lectures and research
Microsoft PowerPoint
7 Keywords: PowerPoint, Accessibility, Slides, Presentations, Lecshare, Illinois Wizard, Text To Speech
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation tool used by many, offering the chance to build text with multimedia slides. The slides can also be used for planning and organisation with the ability to shuffle cards. Accessibility can be a problem and it helps to use the Microsoft templates and speaker notes.
LecShare have produced a program to remind users where to add items that can make it easier for screen readers to navigate slides and work with multimedia. The Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft® Office also provides support.
It is possible to read and present PowerPoint slides if you are a screen reader user. General advice about making your PowerPoint slides more inclusive.
Links
- Accessibility options built into Microsoft Products
There are many accessibility features built into the Microsoft Office products although they do not all work in the same way and differ between versions. Keyboard shortcuts, colour changes and zooming in to magnify items are included along with basic screen reading for menus and start up.
- Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office
"The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office provides a simple way to create highly accessible and standards compliant web versions of Office documents that are more accessible and usable by everyone, including people with disabilities." The wizard is easy to use and offers text versions of the documents alongside graphical versions. The application does not at present work with Vista or Microsoft Office 2007.
- Creating Accessible Presentations
The TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guide to Creating Accessible Presentations has been divided into the following four sections:
Using Microsoft PowerPoint Accessibly within Teaching and Learning
Implementing Inclusive Practice
Delivering Presentations Inclusively
Good Practice in Providing Alternative Outputs to Support Accessibility
- How to Make Presentations Accessible to All
"This page helps you make your presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others." There is a useful check list with guidance from planning to the actual talk and handouts.
- LecShare for making PowerPoint accessible
"LecShare Pro allows you to add audio to Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to create QuickTime movies, MPEG-4 Video files (Video Podcasts), Accessible HTML, and Microsoft Word documents. You can either record audio through a microphone or import audio files." - Making PowerPoint Accessible
WebAIM offer advice for making PowerPoint slide shows accessible for publishing on the web so that they can be used by people using screen readers or keyboard control without the mouse. There is also advice about making audio and video elements usable by those who are deaf or blind.
