[nabs-l] Creating Powerpoints

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hi,

I have a few other helpful tips to consider that make creating
powerpoints a little easier.  In the later versions of powerpoint
there are a ton of easily accessible themes to choose from in the
layout tab.  These themes will apply nice color to your title page and
subsequent slides so you don't have to worry about making them look
nice and professional for your presentation.  Depending on how much
vision you have you might be able to see them, or you can have a
sighted person describe them to you and pick out a few favorite ones
to cycle between when creating powerpoints for different purposes.
For some reason a lot of Jaws users I've met seem to forget that
spellcheck works in powerpoint like it does in word, and can be
accessed with the F7 key.  F5 will be a shortcut to play your
slideshow, and Jaws may also read each slide to you in presentation
mode.  I believe (without opening the program to check so pardon me if
I'm wrong) that space or down arrow will cycle through the slides, and
up arrow would go back.  Pressing escape twice will get you first out
of presentation mode and then back to your edit view for the slides.

For graphics and animations, I too would recommend having someone else
look over your slide and assist with those.  Transitions not so much
because usually Jaws does a decent job of describing the action the
transition takes, but with placing pictures and other animations you
would probably at least want someone to check over your work before
you present.

Hope this helps,

On 10/10/15, Arielle Silverman via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Kennedy. JAWS actually works really well with PowerPoint. Once you
> open PowerPoint, press Control N to create a new presentation. Then on
> each slide you can tab between the "title place holder" and the
> "object place holder". Press Etr on the title place holder to type in
> the title. Press Escape to get out of editing, tab over to the
> objectplace holder, then press enter to type in the text for your
> slide. You can use shift-F6 to get to a pane where you can add slides.
> Insert + F1 gives you a lot of JAWS instructions. When I add graphics
> to PowerPoint I usually get a sighted reader to help arrange it so it
> looks nice, but you can definitely create the text part of the
> presentation by yourself.
> Best, Arielle
>
> On 10/10/15, STOMBERG, KENNEDY via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello Friends, I am participating in a class in which we have to give
>> presentation using power-point presentations. I am wondering if other
>> students have had success with this, and how I would go about doing it. I
>> have a Pc with Jaws 15. I know that Jaws generally doesn't work when it
>> comes to reading PowerPoints, but I have never tried to create one! I am
>> also wondering about adding graphics or figures to PowerPoints. Any
>> suggestions that you have would be greatly aplriciated! Thank you!
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Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton-Music Therapy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students 2013-Present
Secretary, The National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts
Division 2015-2016

"You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back!"