Another consideration is users of screen readers. This is a visual indicator, so remember not everyone who is sighted may notice a text highlight if its colour-based. Similar consideration should be given to the highlighting of text. PowerPoint now gives you the option to change the font colour as part of the accessibility tab.
Sometimes audience members may have colour issues ( i.e., colour blindness) and/or contrast issues ( i.e., monochromacy, low vision, etc.). The font colours should sufficiently contrast against the background colour of slides. Font colour / highlight colour PowerPoint Font Colour and Text Highlight Colour icons You will also be able to interrogate the issues and find out more about accessibility per item type. It will list any items with issues which need fixed. This allows you ( the user) to run an accessibility check on the content within your PowerPoint slides. So what does each thing do? Check Accessibility PowerPoint Check Accessibility icon It’s a little more intuitive instead of the Checker opening items and offering up different options for different elements to be checked on each slide of your presentation. We do like how each accessibility feature is available on the tab and opens a panel on the right hand side of the screen. When we tested this, we simply did an Accessibility Check ( Review | Check Accessibility) and then the Accessibility tab became available: MS PowerPoint Accessibility Tab That said, it’s a tad quirky to make the accessibility tab active on the ribbon. It’s nicely laid out and different elements of the tab come to life depending on the content you have on screen and/or have selected at any point in time. Microsoft have released a new Accessibility Tab in PowerPoint where you can access all things to do with accessibility in one place. There’s probably a bunch of new things, but we want to focus on the Accessibility Tab! ( New) We thought we’d start off the new year by checking out some of these updates which we hope will make it easier for you to create more inclusive digital content for every audience. It’s now 2022 and there have been some accessibility updates to PowerPoint in Office365.
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