[Athen] PowerPoint slides question

[Heidi Scher]

I wonder if it's a case where the instructor initially used the template
proper, then deleted the template box (as they want to change all the
information) and added a new box. I have seen where this will impact the
accessibility as well as what appears in the Outline view.  But that's just
my 2 cent guess.  Aloha!

Heidi

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Teresa Haven <Teresa.Haven at asu.edu> wrote:


>  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.

>

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

> Teresa

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> Supervisor, Alternate Format Program

> Disability Resource Center

> Arizona State University

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