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Accessibility Essentials 3
Delivering Presentations Inclusively
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Section Overview
Accessible Presentation Techniques
This section covers the techniques needed to ensure a presenter is able to engage as many members of the audience as possible. The right delivery will ensure participants gain the most possible out of the presentation. It also covers the way of ensuring that text and background colours are appropriate for the environment of the presentation room.
- Accessible Presentation Techniques - This section covers the techniques needed to ensure a presenter is able to engage as many members of the audience as possible. The right delivery will ensure participants gain the most possible out of a presentation.
- Presentations Appropriate for the Room - This section covers the ways of ensuring that text and background colours are appropriate for the environment of the presentation room.
Slide Show Options
When delivering a presentation using Microsoft
® PowerPoint, it is common practice to do so in Slide Show mode. Viewing a presentation in slide show mode removes any distractions or toolbars from the screen and only shows the presentation slide. To provide assistance when presenting, there are a number of options available when in Slide Show mode. To start a presentation in Slide Show mode navigate to
Slide Show > View Show
or press the F5 key. This section covers the different options available for a presenter while in Slide Show mode. Information covers easy access to the notes fields, pointer and navigation options.
- Using the Notes Field as Speaker Notes - Use of the Notes Field can act as an aide memoir for presenters if they forget the detail of a specific part of the presentation.
- Navigating to non PowerPoint Documents - This section shows how to navigate to non Microsoft® PowerPoint documents while presenting.
- Blank Slides - This section shows how to blank the screen of a presentation.
- Slide Navigation - How to navigate easily to different slides within the presentation.
- Pointer Options - This section covers the different pointer options within Microsoft® PowerPoint.