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

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Important considerations are your presentation materials such as PowerPoint slides,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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,

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

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

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Do not use color alone to convey meaning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Never use general link text like "click here".

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

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To incorporate accessibility into your presentation structure

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Make sure you share your presentation materials in advance.

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

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

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

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

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

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Consider the accessibility of the presentation platform.

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Turn on captioning. Read aloud comments and questions in the chat. And allow your audience to participate in multiple modalities.

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