Discover how to use the slide layout, themes, and customized master slides to establish a logical reading order when creating your presentation.
Creating the Presentation’s Layout Design and Establishing the Logical Reading Order (Video)
When choosing the color palette for your slide’s design, close attention must be given to ensuring that there is enough color contrast between foreground and background.
Ensuring the Contrast Ratio Between Text and Background is Sufficient (Video)
Discover how to consider color and other visual characteristics, such as size, shape, and location are used to convey meaning when creating your presentation.
When modifying a slide’s layout, it may be necessary to structure content into columns. Learn how to ensure that content is read in the proper reading order by using the column tool.
Discover how to use lists to organize and structure content so that assistive technology can identify that information is contained in a group, and convey the relationship between each item within the list.
Learn how to use the built-in table features so that assistive technology can read data tables information in a meaningful manner.
Assistive Technology cannot infer meaning from images and other objects, such as pictures, images of text, images of tables, shapes, and icons with hyperlinks. Learn how to apply “alt text” to objects to ensure equivalent access to the information.
Learn how to add links to a presentation so that each link has a unique and descriptive name to allow assistive technology users to determine the destination, function, or purpose of links.
Learn how to ensure that vital information, created as a watermark or placed in the Header or Footer of the slide, can be accessed by assistive technology.
Discover how to use the language tool to programmatically set the presentation language to enable assistive technology to infer and correctly pronounce content.
Learn how to embed audio-only, video-only, or multimedia files into your presentation so that individuals with disabilities have comparable access to the information.
Ensuring Descriptions of Embedded Audio, Video, and Multimedia Files are Accurate (Video)
Learn how flashing objects can cause seizures and should never be used and cannot be considered accessible. Warning: This video demonstrates a type of flashing object that should never be used.
Discover how a descriptive file name identifying the document or its purpose helps everyone, including people with disabilities, locate, open, and switch between documents.
Saving in the .pptx Format with a Descriptive Filename (Video)
Learn how to use the Microsoft PowerPoint slide master to help others create accessible presentations. Understand how presentation templates can provide users with a variety of layouts and features that can reduce common accessibility issues when utilized.
