PowerPoint Tutorials

Proper Reading Order of Your PowerPoint Slide Content 

This video demonstrates the necessary steps that must be taken to ensure that your PowerPoint lecture reads correctly (sequentially and logically) to individuals accessing your presentation with a screen reader.  

PowerPoint Problem Files, Correcting for Improved Accessibility

This tutorial demonstrates how to remediate a PowerPoint presentation that is inaccessible to audiences due to a number of issues including poor typeface and font choices, improperly formatted tables, and finally, missing slide titles, which prevent users, especially those using assistive technologies, from navigating your presentation in outline form. Additionally, a step-by-step instructional text outlining the processes involved in correcting the issues identified by Microsoft's Accessibility Checker Report as effecting PowerPoint accessibility is available here for downloading and printing as well. As always, if you have an immediate technical need, or if you would to like schedule either a one-on-one or a group training session, please contact HSC's Student Disability Office at DisabilityServices@ttuhsc.edu

WebAim Tools and PowerPoints: Branding Fonts and ADA Compliant Color Contrasts

This video provides instruction on using WebAim tools to match the colors of your fonts to branding guidelines while at the same time ensuring they're also in compliance with ADA accessibility guidelines for state educational institutions. A text and image-based instructional document relating to WebAim's color contrast checker tool can be found here. As always, if you have immediate technical questions, or if you would like to schedule either a one-on-one or a group training session, please contact TTUHSC's Office of Student Disability.