PowerPoint is widely used in the CSU as an instructional tool for students and staff. This training is designed to help you create an accessible PowerPoint from scratch. This training is also useful for teaching others and can be accessed at any time.
Nora Scully, Accessible Technology Training Consultant from San Francisco State University is our presenter. Nora has extensive experience training staff and faculty on the accessibility of PowerPoint and offers a comprehensive training for creating an accessible PowerPoint. This training focuses on the creation of a new PowerPoint presentation. This does not provide training for retrofitting a PowerPoint presentation that has already been published. See below for information about a tool that can help with that situation.
Unit 1 - Introduction to PowerPoint Accessibility (1 min 33)
Unit 2 - The Law (1 min 51)
Unit 3 - Layout Basics (5 min)
Unit 4 - Slide Layouts (3 min 45)
Unit 5 - Add Alternative Text to Graphics (3 min 40)
Unit 6 - Grouping Images and Making Them Accessible (2 min 30)
Unit 7 - Long Descriptions for Complex Images (2 min)
Unit 8 - Making Hyperlinks Accessible (3 min 16)
Unit 9 - Making eMail Addresses Accessible (1 min)
Unit 10 - Inserting Documents into PowerPoint (1 min 40)
Unit 11 - Adding Tables to Your Presentation (3 min 46)
Unit 12 - Adding Charts into PowerPoint (1 min 10)
Unit 13 - Copying Data From Another Application (1 min 43)
Summary (1 min 51)
Use LecShare software to check the accessibility of PowerPoint presentations you've already created. Several CSU campues are using this software because it also allows you to create accessible HTML and MS Word versions of your PowerPoint presentations that can easily be posted to your website. You can find out more about this tool at the LecShare Website: http://www.lecshare.com/. If you purchase or have already purchased this tool, you will find a very useful tutorial at LecShare has produced at http://www.lecshare.com/tutorial/lecshare_tutorial.htm
This training was produced by the Accessible Technology Initiative. It was partially funded by the EnACT Grant. For information about this training, contact the Accessible Technology Initiative
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