Zoom Brown Bag: Awesome PowerPoint Features, with a Focus on Accessibility

Abstract: In the process of focusing on how to design PowerPoint presentations that are accessible to people with visual impairment, color blindness, or no usable screen vision, this seminar will demonstrate tools and techniques that also can boost your general presentation design skills that will be appreciated by any audience. In addition, it will address issues in data presentation including how to create graphs from within PowerPoint, how to animate them, and options for making them more readable by people with low vision. Because the content is so comprehensive, this seminar will span more than one Brown Bag session. https://www.ski.org/users/deborah-gilden

Improving Zoom accessibility for people with hearing impairments People with hearing impairments often use lipreading and speechreading to improve speech comprehension. This approach is helpful but only works if the speaker’s face and mouth are clearly visible. For the benefit of people with hearing impairments on Zoom calls, please enable your device’s camera whenever you are speaking on Zoom, and face the camera while you speak. (Feel free to disable your camera when you aren’t speaking.)