[accessbangla] PowerPoint Accessibility: Make it easy for everyone
- From: "Vashkar" <vashkar79@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accessbangla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:06 +0600
Office Tips and Hints (Blog)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
PowerPoint Accessibility: Make it easy for everyone
By Doug Klippert
When a PowerPoint show is converted to a web presentation, it is not compatible
with a screen reader.
Here are some suggestions that will help make your show more available.
"People who use screen readers will need to have the slides in HTML format in
order to access them. This is the only format that can be considered reliably
accessible to the various brands of screen readers on the market. Some screen
readers can read PowerPoint slides on the Web to some degree, but not well
enough to be considered truly accessible.
As for the other disability categories, those who are deaf will be able to
access the slides without any problems, unless there is embedded multimedia.
In such cases, captions and/or transcripts will be necessary. Those with motor
disabilities will have no special difficulties. Even those who cannot use
a mouse will be fine, since the slides are keyboard-accessible. Those with
cognitive disabilities will not have any particular difficulties, although
text-only
presentations may be difficult in some cases. "
LINKS:
WebAIM.org PowerPoint Accessibility Techniques
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/
Also
How to Make an Accessible Web-based PowerPoint Presentation:
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/powerpoint.htm
http://www.klippert.com/TCC/Blog/2006/04/powerpoint-accessibility.html
vashkar vattacharya
Programme officer
Young Power in Social Action(YPSA)
DAISY Focal Point in Bangladesh
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