[nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

Mon Oct 22 00:31:40 UTC 2012

Peter,
Well, keep in mind  you do not have access to jaws. I've been in many 
college classrooms at more than on institution since I opted to transfer.
In  class the class pc does NOT! have a screen reader. Moreover, I contend 
that
hearing it will actually slow you down. As I said before you cannot advance 
the slides without jaws as you do not know what slide you are on.
You will have access to a person whether a professor or fellow classmate.
Your tone suggests we are not doing it right if we do it with assistance; 
actually part of independence  is getting assistance.
I will present at my internship and know what? The conference room does not 
have jaws. Again, no conference room in the building has jaws.
SO I will get someone to turn slides and I'm still presenting professionally 
and independently because I have notes of my own and will say "next" when 
the slide needs turning. I am in control so I am independentent.

You could bring a laptop with jaws to school I suppose, but why do that when 
you have access to people who can turn slides. Whatever works best for the 
person. Personally, I'd rather read my notes and focus on my speech and 
points rather than listen to jaws and be concerned with what it is saying to 
me.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Peter Donahue
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 8:15 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

Good evening Ashley and everyone,

    So what do you do if you're asked to make a presentation using
PowerPoint and no one is able to run your slides for you? It seems to me
that running your own slides during your presentation is far preferable than
depending on someone else to do it for you. Particularly if you have access
to a classroom computer or a laptop with screen reading software installed.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

Gloria,

This question comes up a lot. I have played with powerpoint plus got
training on it.
One very helpful resource is the Hadley school for the blind webinars. If
interested go to www.hadley.edu.
Then click on seminars, then past seminars. Under the technology heading you
will see two presentations for powerpoint.
Click on part one, then listen to part 2 for more instructions on presenting
and fancy effects.

Do you have to add in transitions and animations to your slides? If not, its
quite easy.
To create the powerpoint, assumeing you have office 2010, do this.
When it opens, you have a title  slide. Press tab to go between the areas
you type called place holders.
Type the title. Press escape to go to object level then tab to the next
place holder. I think you press enter to go to the edit level. Listen for
jaws or your screen reader to say edit. When it says that, type your
subtitle.

I think the ribbon bar is a pain. It takes a while to move to various tabs,
unlike the menu system we used to have. Anyway, if you do not need
transitions or animations, no ribbon bar needed. Use standard office
keyboard commands to move around your text; for instance, control c for
copy, control v for paste, and of course control s for save.

Insert a slide with command control M. By default you will have a title
place holder and a body place holder. I recommend no more than five bullet
points per slide. Also, do not clutter it with text. Its meant as an
outline; use simple key phrases. You will add to what each bullet point says
in your talk.

Press control S to save. If you desire to change font, press control D for
font dialogue box and press tab to go through it all.

For presenting, I second what others said. Make braille notes for yourself
and label by slide; meaning write slide 1 and then outline what you'll say,
not just what is on the slide show; then write slide 2 and write notes.

Have someone turn your slides as you go through. Some blind people use a
laptop and jaws to hear their slides, but that seems like a lot of trouble.
If you use the pc in the classroom, just have them turn the slides and you
will be fine. Yes, many times pressing space in slide show mode works, but
if you have animations, it won't always work like that.

Good luck.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gloria G
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:37 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

Hi all,
I hope someone can give me some pointers. At the end of this semester I am
having to do a power point presentation in one of my classes. I have never
put together a powerpoint by myself. I have been involved in group projects
in which powerpoints were used, but I only submitted my information and
another sighted student incerted my slides. Has anyone had to do this and
how have you handled it? I am also concern when the presentation comes how
to go through the powerpoint during the presentation. Any help is welcomed.
Thanks
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