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Accessible presentations enhance the experience for everyone in your audience, including people with disabilities.

Important considerations are your presentation materials such as PowerPoint slides,

the presentation structure, the presentation format, and the needs of your audience.

To create accessible presentation materials, you're going to need to consider your use of headings, images, color, text, and links.

For headings, you need to use unique titles for each slide.

For example, if you had two slides titled headings, one might just be titled Headings and the next one would be titled Headings

(continued), or if you have multiple slides with the same title, you could number them so Headings, Headings (2) and Headings (3).

For images, you should always add alt text to the images in your presentation.

Alt text is text that describes the meaningful content of an image to someone who cannot see it, and is read by assistive technology.

Do not use images of text because they cannot be read by assistive technology such as screen readers, and do not magnify properly. For color,

Ensure your presentation meets color contrast standards for both text and visuals.

You'll want to use a color contrast checker like TGPi

Do not use color alone to convey meaning.

For example, charts and graphs need text labels in addition to color coding to convey their meaning. And avoid inaccessible color combinations.

For example, red and green together can be difficult to differentiate for many with color blindness.

For text use, fonts that are easy to read and sans serif, such as Roboto or Arial.

Body text font size should be 18 or larger, and heading text font size should be 24 or larger.

Do not use only visual styling, such as bold to convey information to your audience.

For example, if you'd like to bold a sentence to emphasize its importance

Add a note to the beginning of the sentence like "important..." For links, use descriptive link text instead of a URL.

For example, you would hyperlink the text "CU Anschutz Homepage" instead of using the url www.cuanschutz.edu

There's one exception to this rule. If you do not share your presentation materials with your audience,

then include the full URL so your audience can still access the link. Write link text

so that your audience understands what the link is and where it will take them.

Never use general link text like "click here".

Remember that underlined text should only be used to indicate a link.

To incorporate accessibility into your presentation structure

Make sure you share your presentation materials in advance.

This helps your audience follow along and prepare for your presentation.

And this also supports cognitive disabilities such as ADHD and physical disabilities such as vision impairments.

Provide an agenda at the beginning of your presentation so your audience knows what

to expect. And verbally describe non decorative visuals included in your presentation,

such as charts. You'll want to discuss what the visual is showing and why it's important. For virtual presentations

Consider the accessibility of the presentation platform.

Turn on captioning when available, read aloud comments and questions in the chat, and allow your audience to participate in multiple modalities.

For example, use both chat and unmute rather than requiring one modality over the other.

Thank you!