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From: Anitra Pavka
Date: Aug 6, 2002 12:23PM

Jeff Finlay wrote:

> > What have you found to be inaccessible? What
> > suggestions do you have to make PowerPoint presentations more accessible?
>
> From a general viewpoint (not particular to any kind of disability) in this case
> the presentation immediately broke into a series of confusing frames and I
> couldn't figure out how to get past the first slide. Jeff

My only issue is that the presentation is in a PowerPoint format. Even on my
Windows 2000 machine, I could only access the presentation using Internet Explorer
5.x or higher. I also tried it in Netscape 4.78, Netscape 6.2.3, and Opera 6.04.
In all of these other browsers, I either couldn't get any text to display or I got
an odd outline of the text, but nothing displayed correctly (or at all) in the frame
that contains the slides' content.
The information was interesting, especially the statistics you gathered. I
think it's a real shame that it's limited to users of only a particular browser
base. I worry that *nix users (or others without Internet Explorer based user
agents) may not access this information effectively, or maybe at all. For example,
I tried it out in a recent copy of Mozilla under Linux (RedHat) and got the same
results as when I tried Netscape 6.
Until you can convert it into a more usable/accessible format, I suggest you
warn users it may not work correctly unless they're using a recent version of an
Internet Explorer-based user agent. This way it at least removes the (unpleasant)
element of surprise if the presentation doesn't display correctly.


-- Anitra Pavka
Web Designer & Accessibility Advocate
Accessibility Weblog-> http://www.anitrapavka.com


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