Now that you have an understanding of how to create an accessible PowerPoint from the beginning and how to retrofit an existing PowerPoint slide deck, let's explore the more advanced topic of complex images and long descriptions. There may be instances in your PowerPoint slides where long description is necessary.

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Accessible Charts

Depending on your discipline, you may have many slides that present charts to students. Using the chart tools included with PowerPoint is a good starting point. Have you considered, however, how clearly labeled the chart is? Is color the sole indicator of meaning? Have you used patterns to help color blind students distinguish between parts of the graphic? Did you include a data table?

The following video by The Accessibility Guy, Shawn Jordison, explores how you might revise a pie chart embedded into PowerPoint slides to be more accessible.

Long Descriptions

The following video shows you one way to set up long descriptions in a PowerPoint slide deck using hyperlinks within the document.

This page concludes the Accessibility Training for Word and PPT module.