MS PowerPoint Accessibility and Section 508 Best Practices
Duration
1 Day.
There will be a 30 minute break for lunch and two 10-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon periods.
Audience
This course is intended for Microsoft PowerPoint users who want to create accessible or Section 508
compliant documents. No prior knowledge of accessibility or section 508 is required.
Description
The instructor will provide an overview of common MS PowerPoint accessibility-related issues, guidelines and
best practices aimed at creating more accessible documents. The course will include a hands-on
portion where the trainees will go through a number of PowerPoint documents and apply best practices to
make them accessible
The accessibility guidelines and best practices course will cover
the following topics.
- Section 508 Overview
- Key Accessibility Concepts for MS PowerPoint
- Simple slides
- Multi-object slides
- Reading order
- Data Tables
- List items
- Images, charts, clip arts, smart arts, shapes
- Hyperlinks
- Text Boxes
- Summary