PowerPoint & Friends: Accessible Slides on the Web

Terry Thompson
DO-IT, University of Washington
tft@u.washington.edu

For All PowerPoint Solutions

Technique #1

Make the original PowerPoint available for download

Sample PowerPoint file

Technique #2

Use PowerPoint "Save As Web Page"

Sample MHT file

The File Format

The Interface

Technique #3

Use PowerPoint "Save as... Web Page"

Sample HTM file

Technique #4

Use PowerPoint "Save As PowerPoint Show"

Sample PPS File with timed slides
Sample PPS File without timed slides
Sample PPS File without timed slides (full screen)

Technique #5

Use Impatica

Sample Impatica Presentation

Technique #6

Produce a narrated video

Sample Flash video
Sample Quicktime video

A Footnote About Captions

Technique #7

Convert PowerPoint to HTML

The current web page page provides an example of this method

Technique #8

Convert PowerPoint to Adobe PDF

Sample PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Technique #9

Convert PowerPoint to XHTML using Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard

Sample Illinois Wizard Output

Technique #10

Convert PowerPoint to XHTML using LecShare

Sample LecShare Output

Technique #11

Use W3C slide tools

Sample HTML Slidy Presentation

Technique #12

Use S5

Sample S5 Presentation