[Athen] PowerPoint slides question

[Greg Kraus]

Hi Teresa,

Can you send an example of a PowerPoint presentation that has the problem?  If you don't want to post it to the list you can send it to me directly.

Greg

On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Teresa Haven wrote:


> Hi, Sharon.  Another person and I were just having that same conversation off-list.  The thing is, this doesn't appear to be a case of textboxes being used, which is why I'm stumped...

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> Thanks for the input, though, it's always something to share with faculty to help them with the process.

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> Teresa

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> Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. 

> Supervisor, Alternate Format Program 

> Disability Resource Center 

> Arizona State University 

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> From: Sharon Trerise [mailto:trerise at cayuga-cc.edu] 

> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:01 AM

> To: Teresa Haven

> Subject: RE: PowerPoint slides question

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> If you add text to a slide using Insert / Textbox, then the text will not show up on the outline and it will not be available to a screen reader.  If you only use the boxes that appear on the template, then all the text should be accessible. … at least that is my experience with PPT 2003 version.

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> Sharon

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> Sharon Trerise

> Coordinator of Disability Services

> Cayuga Community College

> 197 Franklin St.

> Auburn, NY 13021

> 315-294-8606

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven

> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:20 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question

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> Aloha, all.  I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with.  I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content.  I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view).  In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text.  Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003.  Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it?  I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. 

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> Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share,

> Teresa

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> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 

> Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. 

> Supervisor, Alternate Format Program 

> Disability Resource Center 

> Arizona State University 

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