Accessible PowerPoint Templates — Engage your Audience and Reduce your Remediation Costs

Media

Scheduled at 10:15 am in Penrose 2 on Friday, November 15.

Speaker(s)

• Bevi Chagnon, Designer, Senior Accessibility Trainer, PubCom.com

Session Details

• Length of Session: 2-hr
• Format: Lecture
• Expertise Level: Beginner
• Type of session: General Conference

Summary

Put an end to “death by PowerPoint” and learn how to make better presentations that more effectively communicate to your audience — and are fully accessible, too. This session demonstrates the core requirements of accessible presentations, and shows how to put them into action for today’s latest presentation designs. Also covers how to distribute templates, manage Slide Masters and placeholders, and include accessible speaker notes.

Abstract

No more “death by PowerPoint” presentations. Let’s do better than have a million-and-one bullets in a presentation. Ditch the logos and visual clutter that repeats slide after slide after slide. And make it all accessible and easy to customize.

Put the power of persuasion into your author’s hands with pre-made, well-designed — and accessible — PowerPoint templates that can be easily customized for each PPT.

Session covers:
• The core requirements of an accessible PPT and PDFs exported from PowerPoint.
• How themes, master slides, and placeholders work.
• Controlling tags and reader order.
• Use the latest design trends … and still be accessible.
• Minimize those endless bullet bullet bullet bullet bullet points.
• Ways to export accessible PDFs.
• Options for providing speakers notes and detailed information along with your PPT.
• Design principles for better, more effective communication.

Taught by Bevi Chagnon, an award-winning art director, designer, and accessibility maven, this session also includes design hacks and tips that produce great design + accessibility.

Keypoints

1. For accessible PPTs and PDFs, control Slide Masters, Themes, Placeholders, and reading order.
2. A pre-made template with ready-to-go placeholders can quickly be customized for new presentations.
3. Include users guide to help authors build their own custom PPTs from your templates.

Disability Areas

All Areas

Topic Areas

Accessible Course Design, Other, Uncategorized

Speaker Bio(s)

Bevi Chagnon

Bevi Chagnon has been active in the standards community for 25 years, and currently is a US Delegate to the ISO committees for PDF and PDF/UA. With a long career in publishing, she’s an expert for Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, MS Office, and accessibility. She’s a professional educator, award-winning designer, and former faculty member at Washington DC-area colleges/universities. Bevi is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and a contributor on many forums, including the Adobe Community Forums where she is an invited Community Expert.