All About Accessible PowerPoint Documents
Does anyone remember what this is? Image by Smashicons from flaticon.com.I used to work for the British Civil Service, and they are hot on accessibility. You might think that the dot gov pages (as we call them) are boring and simple, and you’d be right. But the reason for this is so that as many people can easily navigate them as possible, whether they are blind, have a learning disability or another issue which might present a disadvantage when browsing the web.
I’ve found an old presentation I did many moons ago which goes through how to set up an accessible PowerPoint document. As it’s from 2020 some features are better now, but principly PowerPoint hasn’t changed too much. It’s important to remember that PowerPoint was designed to replace the overhead projector - and the overhead projector is a tool which is designed to be looked at by lots of people at once. If you were young, or a little older, in the 80s and 90s you might remember this (we’re talking pre-digital projector). Because PowerPoint can create things that are more advanced than your average overhead projector, people often forget this and think that PowerPoint equals design software. It doesn’t - but that is a tale for another blog.
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