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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks, Karen and Thaddeus, for your responses. I shared them with the person who reached out to me about this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karlen Communications<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 10, 2018 9:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] accessible PowerPoint handout PDFs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864">When I provide an accessible handout/digital handout for PowerPoint, I provide a DOCX version of the presentation converted to tagged PDF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864">I save the PowerPoint as an outline/RTF, save it as a DOCX and then format it using Headings. I copy and paste the images into the Word document and put
the slide number at the end of the Heading text.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864">Currently, exporting PowerPoint to accessible PDF is simply dismal and we’ve regressed in terms of tagging. While I do occasionally Tag the PowerPoint
itself, there is a LOT of cleanup. I tend to use the slides for the webinar/presentation and distribute the DOCX file as a tagged PDF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864">I’ve attached an example of the accessible version of one of my presentations along with the presentation slides as tagged PDF. It took me longer to make
the PDF document accessible than to format the presentation in Word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864">I know this doesn’t answer your question, but it might be an option. Tagging from PowerPoint using either the Microsoft or Adobe tools is horrible right
now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864">Cheers, Karen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Green, Melissa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 10, 2018 9:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] accessible PowerPoint handout PDFs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Can anyone provide guidance on saving or exporting a PowerPoint presentation as an 3 Slides per page handout PDF in a way that yields the most accessible results? I understand the resulting PDF will always require
some accessibility touch-ups, but the approaches I’ve tried so far have yielded pretty dismal results.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I’m working with PowerPoint 2016 for Windows and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC but also have access to PowerPoint for Office 365 and PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Any suggestions you can share would be most appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Melissa<o:p></o:p></p>
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