[nfbcs] About accessibility of Powerpoint 2013 with NVDA

[Jeanine Lineback]

Dictated on an iPhone.

> On Sep 4, 2016, at 3:57 AM, George via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm doing translation work for some companies.  Until recently, they used to send me Microsoft Word and Excel files, but recently they started to ask me to translate on Powerpoint files.
> I have Office 2013 Personal and it came without Powerpoint, so I think I will have to buy it if they continue to ask me to translate on Powerpoint files and I can use Powerpoint.
> 
> The problem is that I have never used Powerpoint and I have no idea if I would be able to use it with the latest version of NVDA on the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10. I am totally blind.
> I will need to read the text and rewrite it in a different language, keeping the layout information (underline, colors, indentation, ETC) as close to the original as possible.
> 
> Is someone using Powerpoint with NVDA?
> How accessible is it?
> Can you save files, for example on HTML format and load them back on Powerpoint?
> I can do so with Microsoft Word and it is very easy to keep almost all the layout information that way (I just need to translate the text and leave the tags as they are).
> 
> Do you think that it pays to buy Powerpoint and have a try?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> George
> 
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I have not used PowerPoint 2013 but PowerPoint 2010 is accessible. You do have to learn how to work with it though. It is not the same as editing a word file or even an Excel file. But if you're able to use PowerPoint 2010 that is definitely accessible. Perhaps someone else on here has tried PowerPoint 2013 and can give you specifics about that version.