Accessibility Checker in PowerPoint
Office 2016 and Office 365
Microsoft has increased the support for creating accessible content in the latest versions of Office for Mac and Windows, as well as Office 365. This includes the inclusion of an accessibility checker that will find some of the typical accessibility issues.
It is important to recognize that there are limits to what any automated tool can detect. You will need to check your presentation to ensure the proper access strategies are applied to your content. You can not rely on the Accessibility Checker as the sole means of addressing accessibility in your presentation.
Use the Accessibility Checker
To use the Accessibility Checker tool in PowerPoint 2016 or PowerPoint Online:
- Go to the Review tab.
- Click "Accessibility Checker".
- Click on the individual items listed in the Accessibility Checker pane. The appropriate slide and content will be brought to focus in the Slide Design area.
- Use the appropriate tool to respond to the accessibility errors for the content listed in the Accessibility Checker pane.
- Once you have addressed the accessibility errors reported by the Accessibility Checker, review your presentation and ensure that all of your content has been formatted for accessibility.