Accessible PDF handouts from PowerPoint

This guide will enable you to adapt your practice in creating PowerPoint presentations so that your PDF handouts can be fully used by people with disabilities in the future.

The content of the PDF handout to be downloaded below is taken from the PowerPoint presentation for the Accessible PowerPoint Handouts course, where the content is explained in detail. The course is an extension of the course "Accessible PDF Documents from Word". This FAQ is an extension of the FAQ on accessible PDFs from Word. We recommend working through these basics in advance, in the course or in the FAQ.

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In a nutshell

Use on-board resources and design templates.
Ensure clear semantics (headings, lists, tables) / Avoid empty paragraphs.
Provide images with alternative texts.
Ensure sensible and correct reading order of content elements (e.g. text boxes).
Ensure high contrast between information (text, data) and background.
Set document titles and document language.
Option / checkbox "Enable accessibility with reflow by creating PDF with tags".
Check your PDF with PAC screen reader preview.

For basics and background on the howtos presented here, see e-Accessibility Basics and our Teaching Lab Moodle course.

Download the Accessible PDF PowerPoint Handout

DownloadDownload PPT-Handout (PDF, 2.3 MB)