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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:13 am
Use accessibility tools
These days, we’re lucky enough to have lots of tool available to help us present inclusively. If you’re presenting in person, check to see if you can provide live captions. PowerPoint can produce automatic captions as you present in the same language you’re speaking, or as subtitles translated to
If you’re presenting online, check your meeting or live event settings to make sure captions and/or transcription are enabled. Teams also allows you to add live translation into many other languages with Teams Premium.
If you’re sharing a PowerPoint presentation in phone number czech republic a Teams meeting, instead of using the standard share screen button, try sharing your presentation using PowerPoint Live. You can either select the file under the share button in the Teams meeting or, if your presentation is already open, select the ‘Present in Teams’ button. As a presenter this gives you access to lots of meeting tools to engage with your audience. It can also improve the viewing experience for people with slower internet connections. This feature allows individual audience members to interact with your presentation and personalise the experience to suit their needs. For example, they can switch to a high contrast view, use screen readers on the slide content, click on hyperlinks to get access to additional context, and even translate slide text into 19 languages! One feature of PowerPoint Live is that audience members can navigate through your presentation independently. However, if you’ve got a carefully crafted deck, you probably want your audience following along with you rather than jumping ahead. So, you can turn this feature off using the Private View toggle.
Finally, consider how and when you’ll allow audiences to ask questions during your presentation. Again, there are tools to help you. Providing the audience with a way to submit questions using a chat feature can help people who might not feel comfortable speaking up or who may struggle to concentrate if they have an unanswered question floating around their head. For larger webinars it may help to have a facilitator in the chat who can help answer questions whilst you’re presenting or filter questions to ask you later.
These days, we’re lucky enough to have lots of tool available to help us present inclusively. If you’re presenting in person, check to see if you can provide live captions. PowerPoint can produce automatic captions as you present in the same language you’re speaking, or as subtitles translated to
If you’re presenting online, check your meeting or live event settings to make sure captions and/or transcription are enabled. Teams also allows you to add live translation into many other languages with Teams Premium.
If you’re sharing a PowerPoint presentation in phone number czech republic a Teams meeting, instead of using the standard share screen button, try sharing your presentation using PowerPoint Live. You can either select the file under the share button in the Teams meeting or, if your presentation is already open, select the ‘Present in Teams’ button. As a presenter this gives you access to lots of meeting tools to engage with your audience. It can also improve the viewing experience for people with slower internet connections. This feature allows individual audience members to interact with your presentation and personalise the experience to suit their needs. For example, they can switch to a high contrast view, use screen readers on the slide content, click on hyperlinks to get access to additional context, and even translate slide text into 19 languages! One feature of PowerPoint Live is that audience members can navigate through your presentation independently. However, if you’ve got a carefully crafted deck, you probably want your audience following along with you rather than jumping ahead. So, you can turn this feature off using the Private View toggle.
Finally, consider how and when you’ll allow audiences to ask questions during your presentation. Again, there are tools to help you. Providing the audience with a way to submit questions using a chat feature can help people who might not feel comfortable speaking up or who may struggle to concentrate if they have an unanswered question floating around their head. For larger webinars it may help to have a facilitator in the chat who can help answer questions whilst you’re presenting or filter questions to ask you later.