D9 - Slides
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Slide presentations are created using built-in accessible slide layouts, with each slide having a unique title. All text is visible in Outline View.
Using PowerPoint (or Other Slide Presentations)
While great as a visual supplement to an oral presentation, PowerPoints weren't meant as stand-alone content in an asynchronous course. One way to increase their instructional value is to turn them into narrated video "lectures" or to bring the most important slide elements into a Canvas page where you can provide textual details and context (and format easily), much as you would in a face-to-face class.
If you offer students access to the slide deck in its original format, it must be made accessible, just like your other course materials (headings, alt text, descriptive links, proper lists, etc.).
All Microsoft Suite applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) have built-in accessibility checkers. Please see the Microsoft Accessibility Checkers page for more details.
Google provides some general guidelines on making your presentation more accessible Links to an external site.. Also, the Chrome browser offers an extension called "Grackle Docs" that checks for accessibility issues in Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. You can find it in the Chrome Web Store.
Check at least three slide decks to verify if appropriate formatting is present (all the same stuff as on a Canvas page: headings, lists, descriptive links, table headings, alt text, color contrast/meaning PLUS reading order). If not, train the instructor on proper formatting techniques for slide decks. (And perhaps have a conversation with them about whether there's pedagogical value presenting that particular content in a slide format.) If just an errant issue or two are found, inform the instructor of the problems so correction can be made.
If the presentation deck was created using MS Powerpoint, use the built-in accessibility checker. Please see the Microsoft Accessibility Checkers page for more details.
Grackle Links to an external site. is a web add-on that can be used to check accessibility of Google applications. If your college has a GSuite account, they can add on unlimited user access across your college domain for a single group license. Generally speaking, you need to have Edit rights of the instructor's Google document/slides in order to run Grackle on their content.