WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: PowerPoint 2007 charts and graphs accessibility

for

From: Paul.Adam
Date: Jan 12, 2011 12:33PM

No in PowerPoint the data that generates the chart, shown in an excel window when you create a PPT chart or edit the chart data, is not accessible. At least not when viewing the slide.

So the only way to make chart or graph accessible in PowerPoint is to manually add alt text.

A chart created directly in Excel is accessible and does not need alt text because JAWS reads the tabular data used to generate the chart. At least this is my experience so far.

Paul Adam
Accessibility Specialist
Center for Policy and Innovation
<EMAIL REMOVED>