WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

PowerPoint, text boxes and accessibility

for

From: Howard Kramer
Date: Jan 30, 2020 2:59PM

I've been playing around with PowerPoint (2013 for Windows) and NVDA. It's
always been emphasized not to use text boxes and instead to use the slide
layouts but I notice that NVDA reads the text boxes without
problem although you may need to rearrange the order in the selection pane.
I can see that the text boxes are missing from the outline view but I can't
see to get NVDA to read that pane in any case.

Does the admonition against text boxes still apply?

--
Regards,
Howard

Howard Kramer
Conference Coordinator
Accessing Higher Ground
303-492-8672
cell: 720-351-8668

Join us for the *Accessing Higher Ground Conference
<http://accessinghigherground.org/>;* in Westminster, Colorado, Nov 16-20,
2020. Request for proposals will be announced late February.



Complete program information and registration is open for our full line-up
of Spring 2020 webinars
<https://www.ahead.org/events-programming/webinars/2020-spring-webinars>. Site
capacities for all webinar events is limited; please register at your
earliest convenience for the largest selection.



Not yet a member of AHEAD? *We welcome you to join AHEAD now.
<http://ahead.org/join/become-a-member>;*