I’m busy building presentations for some upcoming conferences, so in lieu of a full blog post, please read my twitter thread about making your presentations more accessible. All but one of these tips are applicable regardless of the software that you use to build presentation content.
Ok, presenter friends: Fall conference season is almost upon us, and I know many of you are currently or about to be making new presentations. Some reminders about accessible design and making sure your audience can read and understand the visuals you are presenting.
— Meagan Longoria (@MMarie) September 1, 2019
Why lose the engagement of a single person in your audience because of poor design choices? Most of the design tips I list are not that difficult to implement, and many of them can be built in to your presentation template, which I hope you are customizing to fit your content (and yes, I’m aware of the struggle of using templates provided by conference organizers). See below for my thoughts on the built-in templates in presentation design software.
FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS USE OFF-THE-SHELF TEMPLATES!
— Dr. Echo Rivera (@echoechoR) September 1, 2019
You need to build your own. It might be the harder way, but it’s the effective way.
Don’t use someone else’s! pic.twitter.com/5cUSgClYI5