Question: slides for presentations

[sasha_feather]

Hi,

Does anyone have resources or guidelines on how to make slides for presentations accessible?

Thanks!

Comments

[lightgetsin]

Interesting. Speaking as a screenreader user, whenever I have slides I want to access, I don't even bother with pp but just save out as an rtf file. It works very well. But of course I would lose any information contained only in a graphical form.

[jadelennox]

Yeah, webaim tells you how to add alt but I can assure you from experience that it's a nightmare to do.

[sasha_feather]

Thanks! That's helpful.

[feathercircle]

I can't really help with the general question, but I can verify that Powerpoint supports alt text at least as far back as Office 2010.

[j00j]

This looks pretty good and includes some formats besides PPT. http://www.washington.edu/accessit/articles?28

When I worked for an online learning program, we converted all Powerpoints to HTML and added alt text.

If you've got a lot of images or complex charts, describing those could get more challenging and I don't know anywhere near enough about how to do it in a useful way, so I defer to folks who have more experience doing this and/or using the results.

[sasha_feather]

Thank you!

[jadelennox]

WebAim is always awesome; this is their powerpoint resource.

[sasha_feather]

Thank you! I am book marking that.