Creating Accessible Presentations

The Accessibility Essentials Guide on presenting with Microsoft

PowerPoint is the third in a series of four documents. The further three documents in the series are as follows:

This document has been designed to give practical step-by-step information to enable anyone reading electronic material to amend its look and feel into a style which suits them, their audience or the context in which it is used. The optimum accessibility and usability of a document will be different for every user and every user environment. With these guidelines people can take control of the way a document is presented or navigated. Step-by-step instructions are provided for Microsoft

Word, Adobe

Acrobat Reader, Microsoft

Internet Explorer and Mozilla

Firefox.

This document is designed to outline the techniques people need to ensure the writing of accessible electronic information. This document will concentrate on guidance for Microsoft

Word. When producing electronic information the biggest accessibility gain is ensuring the user can amend the look and feel in a way which suits them. However, there are a number of font and structuring techniques which can increase the readability for a larger number of people.

This document is designed to outline the techniques people need to use to ensure the writing of accessible electronic information. This document will concentrate on guidance for Adobe

Acrobat Professional and the creation of PDFs. When producing PDFs it is important to ensure that the structuring techniques, which can increase the readability of a document, are used when the PDF is created.

For further information on the previous Accessibility Essentials guides