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Re: Question: How to convert a PowerPoint into an accessible page?

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From: Tania
Date: Jul 14, 2014 12:09AM

recently i created a webpage to present photos individually on screen .
Used table with one column and each td height the same as monitor
screen. put a <img in each td with alt text. the first td has words
only. but in other 'td' can use same technique to present.
the aim was to simulate slide presentation for blind friend to use.
On 7/14/2014 6:34 AM, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
> Hi,
> On 12 Jul 2014, at 23:58, "Robert Jaquiss" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> I have a PowerPoint that I want to convert to an accessible web page.
> I was wondering about this question for a while, and was somehow surprised that not a single useful idea came to mind… Then it dawned on me that **one** web page is conceptually the wrong approach for representing a PowerPoint presentation. It is its very nature that it consists of a deck of slides. Individual slides that is. So the closest one could get to replicate a slide deck on the web would be to use a stack or sequence of slide-loike entities. Using plain HTML this would probably mean to use one web page per slide, and link them in a suitable fashion, using "next slide" links and maybe also "previous slide" links. Using CSS, JavaScript, and/or maybe SVG would allow for more dynamic options inside what could technically still be considered a single web page, though accessibility could eveneasily suffer in such an approach.
>
> But leaving all this reasoning behind I am still puzzled why I have never heard of an accessible representation for a slide presentation in the form of HTML content…? Does it exist? Or are HTML / web pages just not a good fit for [accessible] slide presentations? How is everybody else sharing their slide presentations in an accessible manner?
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> Olaf
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Regards,
Tania