Tom,
You can download a Power Point Accessibility Wizard that will
convert Power Point Presentations to highly accessible HTML
versions. It includes advanced accessibility features like
providing text tables of charts.
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office
Let me know what you think of it
Jon
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>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:40:33 +1000
>From: "MACMAHON, Tom" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Creating a PowerPoint presentation
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have had an S O S from staff supporting an early high
school student needing to produce a PowerPoint presentation as
part of his Business IT subject. I have to confess to not
having done much in this area and being pretty ignorant
regarding possible work-arounds, solutions or alternatives for
some of the visual requirements. I have, of course, passed on
general PPT guides (for sighted users), JAWS Specific Help
info and keyboard shortcuts, but the dilemmas are in such
areas as using text boxes, inserting hyperlinks, drawing
shapes and inserting/manipulating pictures and graphics.
>
>My response is that many of these aspects are next to
impossible without sighted assistance and that it is fair and
reasonable for the student to prepare textual content, be
taught and explained the concepts and overall design aims and
outcomes and to participate as fully as possible in creating
the design ideas, even if he has to have a teacher aide do
much of the actual slide creation. Would anyone with
experience in this area agree or have any suggestions, please,
which I could pass on to them?
>
>Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in
anticipation.
>
>Regards,
>Tom.
>
>
>Tom Macmahon
>Statewide Advisory Visiting Teacher - Assistive Technology
>Disability Services Support Unit, Education Queensland
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