EASI Corp 4-part Fee-based Series on Accessible PowerPoint and Excel
January 15, 22, 29 and February 5
Times: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Karen McCall
This four-part series takes an in-depth look at making PowerPoint and Excel content more accessible. While Karen has delivered sessions on PowerPoint accessibility
as part of general document accessibility, this four-part series gives us a chance to delve into more of the tools that document authors have to optimize
PowerPoint and Excel content for accessibility.
>Week 1: Decisions about content in PowerPoint, Themes and Templates, creating your own template.
Week 2: Working with Slide Masters, colour contrast, accessible slide placeholders, using the Selection pane to provide a logical reading order.
Week 3:Spacing content on a slide, adding slide numbers, Excel accessibility tips, describing a workbook and worksheet, adding a table of contents to a
workbook and worksheet, naming worksheets.
Week 4: Continuing with Excel , inserting tables on a worksheet, Table Headers/filters on a worksheet, and then converting PowerPoint and Excel content
to accessible tagged PDF.
The order of content may change, and topics may be added depending on questions from participants.
