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Accessibility Essentials 3

Creating Accessible Presentations

Introduction to the JISC TechDis Accessibility Essentials Series

Accessibility Essentials: Creating Accessible Presentations is the third in a series of four documents. The furthur three documents in the serise are as follows:

Making Electronic Documents More Readable

This document has been designed to give practical step-by-step information to enable anyone reading electronic material to amend its look and feel into a style which suits them, their audience or the context in which it is used. The optimum accessibility and usability of a document will be different for every user and every user environment. With these guidelines people can take control of the way a document is presented or navigated. Step-by-step instructions are provided for Microsoft
®
Word, Adobe
®
Reader, Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer and Mozilla
®
Firefox.


Writing Accessible Electronic Documents with Microsoft
®
Word

This document is designed to outline the techniques people need to ensure the writing of accessible electronic information. This document will concentrate on guidance for Microsoft
®
Word. When producing electronic information the biggest accessibility gain is ensuring the user can amend the look and feel in a way which suits them. However, there are a number of font and structure techniques which can increase the readability for a larger number of people.


Making the Most of PDFs

The JISC TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guide on making the most of PDFs (Portable Document Format) has been designed to provide step-by-step information to enable anyone creating PDF document to do so in a more accessible manner. These hints and tips will benefit those who create PDF documents using scanned materials or word processed documents, or receive a PDF version of publicity materials from a graphic designer.


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All references to Windows, Office, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are references to the Microsoft® products of the same name.