From the course: PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides
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Checking colors for accessibility
From the course: PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides
Checking colors for accessibility
- [Instructor] So let's say we've chosen a color palette or been handed a PowerPoint deck with a custom color palette built in, and now we need to check to see if the colors in this template and the deck are accessible. Well, if we were to run the accessibility checker, going up to that review tab, clicking on that check accessibility button that brings up that accessibility checker and it says "No accessibility issues found. People with disabilities should not have difficulty reading this presentation." However, there are some issues in this deck, particularly with these text boxes in the upper right hand corner. One says high contrast text, the other says low contrast text and one is really easy to see and the other is not. But the accessibility checker doesn't flag either of those. Why is that? Well, it's because the accessibility checker only checks color contrast on a per object basis. These text boxes have…
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