How Do I Make PowerPoint Slides Accessible?
Use meaningful slide titles, logical object order, appropriate alternatives and checked media. Verify the shared PowerPoint file and any exported version separately.
A usable slide deck needs more than readable text on screen. Students must be able to navigate slides and understand relationships, visuals and media in the format they receive.
Build a sensible structure
Use supported slide layouts and meaningful titles. Inspect the object reading order using the tools available in the installed PowerPoint release. Visual placement alone does not establish the sequence an assistive technology encounters. Group content only where the resulting representation remains useful.
Convey information clearly
Provide informative image and chart alternatives, with a longer explanation or data where needed. Use the supported decorative treatment for decorative content. Do not rely on color alone. Check contrast, text size in the real presentation setting and table-header relationships; WCAG does not set one universal 18-point body-font minimum.
Check interaction and media
Use descriptive links and avoid requiring a timed animation to obtain essential information. Review video captions and necessary visual descriptions. Audio-only and video material require their own assessment; an automatic transcript is not a complete media-accessibility result.
Inspect each delivery format
Run the available authoring checker and address relevant findings. Test the shared deck with keyboard and assistive technology. A PDF or HTML export is a separate output whose structure and content need evaluation.
Keep the original and inspect the actual saved output. Combine relevant automated checks with manual review of meaning, reading order, navigation and content preservation. Test important student tasks with the intended reader and assistive technologies. A clean checker report alone does not establish conformance.
Aelira Core is beta software. Supported workflows can apply eligible partial fixes and record outcomes, but some inputs need manual work or cannot produce a downloadable remediated file. Review the actual saved output, unresolved findings and content preservation before publication. Automated scores describe implemented checks rather than accessibility conformance. Inspect the public source and release documentation and evaluate a representative authorized sample before planning a rollout.
Aelira Team
•Accessibility EngineersThe Aelira team is building beta accessibility tools for higher education. Institutions can evaluate selected checks and partial fixes on their own files, with human review required before publication.
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