Empowering Everyone: Strategies for Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
summary
Step‑by‑step PowerPoint guidance: set file title and language metadata, use slide layouts and Slide Master, keep fonts at or above 20 pt, avoid color as the sole indicator, add descriptive alt text and links, simplify or avoid tables, and fix reading order using outline view. Run the accessibility checker under Review (demo shows four missing alt texts and several reading‑order flags). Note Mac PDF exports often break tagging; exporting from OneDrive/SharePoint or using Word yields more reliable accessible PDFs. AI can generate consistent mascot art but still needs proper alt text.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Speaker’s needs
- 3:02Why accessibility matters
- 7:56Kindness and efficiency
- 10:16Four core principles
- 13:14Accessible PowerPoint design
- 19:35Setting up PowerPoint
- 22:35Slide layouts and reading order
- 25:06Accessibility checker
- 26:33Demo of features
- 31:03Q&A
- 38:17Closing remarks
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