This 10 hour self-paced online course guides you through creating accessible yet dazzling PowerPoint presentations. Learn what parts of a PowerPoint are accessible, how to leverage accessibility using the Slide Master, how to create your PowerPoint presentation in Word (for Windows) and how to create an alternate format of a presentation for Braille or large print. Other tools explored are PowerPoint Designer, Subtitles during presentations and PowerPoint Coach.
Course Curriculum
- PowerPoint Quick Start (5:39)
- Slide Masters, JAWS and NVDA
- Templates and Themes in PowerPoint (9:32)
- Saving a PowerPoint Template (2:20)
- Using Your Template (1:04)
- Theme Fonts and Colours (4:16)
- Pinning Templates (2:46)
- Fonts in PowerPoint (1:45)
- modify Theme Fonts (3:45)
- Modify Theme Colours (2:09)
- Create New Theme Colour (9:39)
- Updating the Slide Size (1:34)
- Changing the Default Font to Aptos or Aptos Serif (new default Microsoft font)
Accessible PowerPoint: A Primer
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Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design
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Accessible PDF Documents (Basics)
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Karen McCall, M.Ed.
Karen has been working in the field of digital accessibility for over 25 years. Her book on creating and working with accessible PDFs was first published in 2005 with subsequent updates. The fourth edition was published in 2017. She has written books on creating accessible Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and PDF forms. She is a Canadian delegate to ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) as well as the technical standards committee for plain language for the Accessible Canada Act. She has been a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services since 2009 and a Microsoft Accessibility MVP sine the category was created in 2014.
