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Re: Are there major accessibility issues in Word, PowerPoint & Outlook

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From: mhysnm1964@gmail.com
Date: Nov 1, 2019 7:44PM

Is there such a beast providing best practice for designing powerpoints to
ensure they are accessible?

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
Philip Kiff
Sent: Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Are there major accessibility issues in Word,
PowerPoint & Outlook

Yeah, the interface for managing object order and reading order in
PowerPoint seems both unintuitive and crappy to me, too.

Having said that, in case others aren't aware, if you use master slide
layouts that match exactly the objects in your slide content, then you can
in fact set the order to be correct automatically for each slide.
So, for e.g., if you have many slides with a title, a text block on the
left, and an image object on the right, then you can create a template with
those exact placeholders, and you can customize the order of the
placeholders in the arrange > selection pane options in the master template.
From then on, any slides using that template will follow the order you set.
And blank slides using that layout will have the right kind of placeholders
in the right places to insert text/images. So in the case of a fairly
standard 100-plus slide presentation, you don't always necessarily have to
custom order each and every slide.

This doesn't help in the case of presentations built out of many complex
slides with constantly varying number of custom objects. But most PowerPoint
users don't really need or what to do that. And indeed, one might even argue
that the PowerPoint format is not really the best choice in the case of a
need for complex visual presentation to begin with.

Phil.

On 2019-11-01 21:26, Glen Walker wrote:
> Exactly my point. You have to *manually* fix the reading order. Every
object on every slide on every presentation. It should be automatic.
>
> And speaking of tables in word, I have not found a way to create row
headers.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 1, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:
>>
>> By creating the order, are you talking about adding each object
>> individually? Since O13, you can go home > arrange > selection pane.
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