[Athen] Accessible PowerPoint

[Jeanne Wielgus]

Hi Karen,

I would love the attachments if possible. Thank you.

~jeanne


On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 7:14 AM Karen McCall <K4mccall at outlook.com> wrote:


> I tried sending this three times and removed the attachments so if anyone

> wants them, let me know.

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> Morning Everyone!

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> I sent these to Matthew separately but will send them to the list.

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> Here are my conference handouts for creating accessible PowerPoint. I did

> a presentation at AHG two years ago on “Word to PowerPoint to Word” showing

> how to create your presentation in Word, bling it up in PowerPoint, then

> create the alternate format from the finished PowerPoint presentation.

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> I’ve just finished developing curriculum for a Mohawk College micro

> credential course on accessible PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel. Will send

> links once the courses are live.

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> Even I was amazed at the “bling” I could add to a presentation using a

> screen reader or just the keyboard.

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> The attached documents are free tutorials from my website.

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> I found a resource on the Microsoft site:

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> Use a screen reader to show your presentation with PowerPoint

> (microsoft.com)

> <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-a-screen-reader-to-show-your-presentation-with-powerpoint-7d9983fd-753d-474e-8214-c760e0bf75f2>

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> Let me know if you have any questions!

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> Cheers, Karen

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Robert Beach

> *Sent:* Friday, May 27, 2022 8:52 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Creating and delivering a presentation as a

> blind student

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> Matt,

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> I am blind and give PowerPoint presentations all the time. I even create

> the content myself. Once I have it the way I “think” it should be, I have

> sighted colleagues review it to make sure everything does look good. I use

> JAWS and find it doable, while not the easiest to do. Creating the content

> is not difficult, formatting to be pretty is what can take some time and

> thought.

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> There are some basics to understand about using JAWS with PowerPoint. I

> suggest the student first create his content in Word using heading styles.

> Each new slide should start with a heading 1 style. When the file is pulled

> into PowerPoint, it will automatically create a new slide each time there

> is A heading 1 encountered. Heading 2 will be the main bullet points of the

> slide and heading3 will be the subpoints. You can go deeper than that if

> needed, up to a level 6. I personally have never found the need to do this.

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> When in PowerPoint, the F5 key will launch slide show mode. Once in this

> mode, SPACEBAR will advance a slide and BACKSPACE will go back a slide. The

> ESC key will exit slide show mode and return to the normal view for editing.

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> While in normal view for editing, TAB will move between the placeholders

> on the slide, ENTER will start edit mode on that placeholder, and ESC will

> exit edit mode for that placeholder. PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN will move between

> slides.

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> CTRL+M makes a new slide which will have the default format or sometimes

> the same format as the previous slide. CTRL+N creates a new presentation.

> As always, CTRL+S will save the slide and CTRL+O will open a presentation.

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> Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.

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> *Robert Lee Beach*

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> *Assistive Technology Specialist* – Student Accessibility & Support

> Services

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> *Kansas City Kansas Community College*

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> 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112

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> O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678

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> rbeach at kckcc.edu

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> Hi Colleagues

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> Our student disability and inclusion team are supporting a blind masters

> student who will be undertaking a 90 minute viva. Part of this is the

> delivery of a 30 minute presentation using visual aids such as a PowerPoint

> presentation.

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> The student has never done an activity such as this before, and is not

> familiar with PowerPoint.

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> I would be interested to hear any experiences, tips, or strategies that

> can be used by the student and those who support the student. And any

> suggestions of software that might help. The student is reasonably

> confident using Narrator and Jaws, but this is more for consuming content

> and writing emails and documents.

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> Thanks

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