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From: Karen McCall
Date: Nov 3, 2023 6:07AM

All slides must use the slide title placeholder, not a "header text box".

Others have responded to the reading order issue.

To replace a "header text box" with a slide title placeholder" access the Accessibility Checker. This reveals an Accessibility Ribbon in Microsoft 365. You can then add a slide title placeholder, cut and paste the information from the text box into the correct placeholder.

BTW, if someone needs a Braille copy or large print copy of the presentation content, you'll need to copy and paste all content in text boxes manually. If you use the default accessible placeholders, you won't.

Cheers, Karen

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Claire Forbes
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:34 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] PowerPoint_Reading Order

Good afternoon,
Can anyone here assist with a PowerPoint reading order issue?

There is a text box header situated above a text box of content - In the slide's alignment, the header is in front of the text box, but in the reading order it's reversed (#2 and #3 in the image below). When I switch them so they're correct in the reading order, that changes their alignment on the slide [cid:image001.png@01DA0DA1.A6ED0D60]


Corrected reading order:
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Does anyone know how to fix this so that the reading order is correct without rearranging the slide content? Only think I can think to do is group them and give them alt text.

Thank you!
Claire