[nabs-l] Powerpoint presentation

Mon Oct 22 02:03:53 UTC 2012

As Mark said, you can advance your own slides without JAWS, by
pressing the spacebar and remembering how you organized your slides.
You do not need to memorize exactly what is on which slide, just the
general organization of your presentation as a whole.
I have presented many times on computers without JAWS and only once
did I run into problems, because the spacebar advanced multiple slides
at once for some reason. A quick test with the professor to ensure the
spacebar advances only one slide at a time should be all you need.
Arielle

On 10/21/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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