Transcript This is a test of composing in Outline format

Accessible
Presentations
Made Easy
This is a short tutorial for creating an
accessible text version of your
presentation in PowerPoint using the
“Outline” feature.
Why bother?
• Outlining helps organize your content and
makes for clearer presentations.
• It creates a text alternative for those who
don’t have or can’t use PowerPoint
• Some Web users are still on slow connections
and cannot download large ppt files
• Text files are accessible to people with vision
and motor impairments; PowerPoint is not.
Here’s how
1. Open the Outline tab in the lefthand column
2. Type in some text. It will appear as a
headline on the corresponding slide.
3. Hit “enter” to start the next slide.
4. To add text to the body of a slide, hit
“CTRL+enter”
• That creates a bullet point
• Additional “enter” actions add bullets
5. Continue to outline your
presentation in this manner
6. When you’re done, you can go back
and
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Format text with fonts, colors, etc.
Add shapes
Add graphics
Etc.
You may also wish to use the
“notes” panel
• To add narration that will play in synch with
the slides
• To add explanatory or footnote text
When you’re all done
• Highlight all the text in the outline panel
• Copy the text to the clipboard (CTRL-C)
• Create a new file in any word processing
program
• Paste in the text (CTRL-V)
• Save the file in plain text (.txt) format.
Congratulations!
• You’ve just created an accessible version of
your PowerPoint presentation! The Sea Grant
Webmaster can now easily convert it for use
on the Web.
For more information
• See a text version of this presentation at:
http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/inhouse/docum
ents/accessible_presentations.html
• For more information about technology
accessibility, visit:
http://oregonstate.edu/accessibility/
• Read about Oregon Sea Grant’s Web access
policies at:
http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/inhouse/technol
ogy_access.html