PowerPoint Document Compliance

There is no automatic “compliance validator” tool available for PowerPoint documents, but following these best practices assures  documents are accessible:

Text

• All Text must appear in Outline View (Text in a text box will not appear in the Outline View)
• Create slide titles in a Title Holder, not with a text box
• Slide layouts are used for all text

• No flickering and/or flashing text or objects
• No animated text or objects
• Graphics must have alternative text unless decorative or background image
• An illustration created from several smaller images must be grouped to form one object
• Alt Text must be associated with the grouped object

• Check to see that charts were created in PowerPoint
• If charts were copied from another program, they are treated as images
• All charts must have Title, Legend, Axis Labels

Tables:

• Tables are a layout based on rows and columns
• Check that tables were created within PowerPoint
• When tables are imported into PowerPoint from another program or source, they are recognized as images
• Labeled column and row headers