{"id":9004111224554332,"date":"2023-01-31T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=9004111224554332"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:13:56","slug":"a-path-to-designing-a-more-accessible-presentation","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/articles\/design\/a-path-to-designing-a-more-accessible-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Path to Designing a More Accessible Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aleksandra-melnikova-36116722\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aleksandra Melnikova<\/a> is an inclusive researcher, service designer, and <\/em><em>co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicvelocity.design\/\">Cosmic Velocity<\/a> <\/em><em>who is passionate about accessibility. Below, she details the process of iterating on a presentation to make it more accessible and shares key takeaways for designers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">In August 2022, I was so excited to release the <a href=\"https:\/\/design-own-research.notion.site\/design-own-research\/Workshop-learnings-afdd65a40f544ca1a2aa57a4b2969bb0\">Inclusive Research Report<\/a>\u2014talking about how we make our research more inclusive as a process and a field\u2014that I must say I had not rigorously tested the document itself. My implicit bias took over: I know a thing or two about accessibility, I\u2019ve always <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/prototypr\/designing-for-people-7-things-to-say-yes-to-1fa3000e3769\">written<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k9NM4URwQjg\">spoken<\/a>\u00a0and cared about it, so I try my best to make anything I create accessible by default.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Our Starting Point for the Inclusive Research Presentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">We designed the presentation in Figma first, but as we had to collaborate extensively, we decided to move to Google Slides for the ease of sharing and editing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__heading2\">Here\u2019s what we did to make it accessible in the first place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We created a clear page structure with descriptive headers<\/li>\n<li>We used the highly legible\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexend.com\/\">Lexend<\/a>\u00a0font<\/li>\n<li>No text was smaller than 13 pt.<\/li>\n<li>Contrast was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/colourcontrast.cc\/\">checked with this tool<\/a>\u00a0throughout<\/li>\n<li>We did not use excessive images or text overlaying images<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"reader-text-block__heading1\"><strong>Feedback<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">I received tons of positive feedback from all around the community signaling that the research was useful. There was one comment that stood out for me: \u201cYour report here is inaccessible to read on 20% of pages for any of your audience on neurodivergent spectrum.\u201d It proceeded to list some specifics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bright and contrasting\u00a0<strong>colors<\/strong>\u00a0and images<\/li>\n<li>Centre-aligned\u00a0<strong>text<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Heavy blocks of text\u00a0<strong>without enough leading<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Oh, this is something I need to iterate on pretty much now<\/em>, I thought. So, I went back through the document and changed a few things:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Immediate Changes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Decreasing the level of bright and contrasting colors and images, removing color where not necessary<\/li>\n<li>Increasing color contrast (for avoidance of doubt, aiming at <a href=\"https:\/\/accessibleweb.com\/color-contrast-checker\/\">AAA<\/a>\u00a0level)<\/li>\n<li>Checking if we used center-aligned text for headers only (we did)<\/li>\n<li>Adding more leading (line spacing) and padding to all presentation components<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">Then, I thought to myself, <em>I\u2019d love to check it in a more objective way; surely there\u2019s a plugin for this<\/em>! There was a Chrome plugin called <a href=\"https:\/\/workspace.google.com\/marketplace\/app\/accessibility_checker_for_slides\/437536886016\">Accessibility checker for Google Slides<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of what it enables you to check:<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember34\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img lazy-image ember-view alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/D4D12AQGPNyAsZ1sUmg\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/0\/1660648319137?e=1680739200&amp;v=beta&amp;t=CnnRosz9rey8eKxUGGbii3fXJnHWqAoE0nqA7S0Mg0k\" alt=\"Result of accessibility checker on Google Slides, providing a summary on what works and what doesnt. Two core areas within my presentation marked with &quot;sad face&quot;\u200b: 1. contrast 2. alt text \" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">Thank you for the overview, but not helpful, as there&#8217;s no way to get to the core of individual issues, and that is in a 95-page deck! More research, unfortunately, revealed that Google Slides simply does not have any decent document accessibility checkers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">I needed three things to understand how might I make the report better:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Speak with accessibility experts<\/li>\n<li>A more useful way of checking whether I made real progress, on the &#8220;software said yes&#8221; level<\/li>\n<li>Testing with people with dyslexia and autism (at the least)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 class=\"reader-text-block__heading1\"><strong>Expert Opinion: Alt Text, Slide Titles, and Reading Order<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rightsaidjames\">James Sheasby Thomas<\/a>, our very own accessibility specialist, had some excellent points: &#8220;Visually, I think the accessibility is very good. From a screen reader perspective, this is not accessible but this is a <em>very <\/em>high bar to reach for presentations, so I would suggest a companion blog post, podcast or video instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">He also flagged a few key rules I needed to ensure I follow\u2014in regards to <a href=\"https:\/\/accessibility.huit.harvard.edu\/describe-content-images\">alt text<\/a>\u00a0and how it needs to be written, as well as focus order (the order in which the page gets read out by screen readers):<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember35\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img lazy-image ember-view aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/D4D12AQFgF59-hY07jw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/0\/1660908289543?e=1680739200&amp;v=beta&amp;t=mP3y01wZYxSe_nsWL6HxWKDSlu8PJiaJHOd5ftssBtI\" alt=\"James'\u200b comment on the order of reading on one of the busiest slides with images and credit to everyone who has contributed to the report\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">I manually added missing alt text, <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsaidjames.com\/\">James<\/a> and I were happy about it, but how do I know I haven\u2019t missed anything?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">This is where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kay-patel-0212a3b2\/\">Kay Patel<\/a>, a wonderful Digital Inclusion and Accessibility Standards Lead at HMRC said, &#8220;You need to switch to PowerPoint. They have an excellent accessibility toolkit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">If it were a movie, this is where sad music would start playing. Like many product\/service designers, my relationship with PowerPoint is tense, to say the least. Between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/keynote\/\">Keynote<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.com\/\">Pitch<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/slides\/about\/\">Google Slides<\/a> it is (was) the last on my list of pleasant presentation software to use. Why, you might ask? I\u2019ll answer with a few screenshots:<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--left-align\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember37\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img lazy-image ember-view aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/D4D12AQEGXLptiCegEQ\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/0\/1660916128454?e=1680739200&amp;v=beta&amp;t=BZ6W8lmlJEPVc5dQGvzj-tedzSX8o3PtkNXpoD8B7II\" alt=\"Alert, descrribing why I cannot edit my chart (cannot open excel)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">I exported my Google Slides to PowerPoint. Then, I reached a good level of desperation trying to log in to Office Suite, getting cryptic messages about my account being view-only, as well as failing to edit a chart and having to re-install the software altogether. However, there was a plus side: the accessibility checker was the best one I&#8217;ve seen to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">Thanks to\u00a0Kay, I learned how to fix the alt text on the shapes, ensure contrast in a few places I missed, and sort out the order of the page components by working with <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/select-individual-objects-on-a-slide-c9c89522-65e1-40dd-a4b2-469c1b19adf8\">the Selection Pane<\/a>. I ran through the report several times until there were no issues left within the accessibility panel on the checker.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9004111224615539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1660915994162-1024x538.png\" alt=\"Diagram from the report on what matters to people, with accessibility panel on the right, encouraging to describe the image in a detailed way (all as viewed in PowerPoint)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/1660915994162-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/1660915994162-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/1660915994162-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/1660915994162-1536x807.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/1660915994162-600x315.png 600w, https:\/\/www.pragmaticinstitute.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/1660915994162.png 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">She also shared these immensely useful accessibility resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hmrc.github.io\/accessibility-empathy-hub\/\">Accessibility Empathy\u00a0hub<\/a>\u00a0by HMRC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hmrc.github.io\/gaad\/\">Raising accessibility awareness<\/a>\u00a0by HMRC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/accessibility\/forproducts\/xr\/\">Accessibility for Products<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a project looking at various barriers, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/accessibility\/forproducts\/xr\/presentations\/\">helpful presentations<\/a>\u00a0by BBC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpgi.com\/color-contrast-checker\/\">Magic contrast checker<\/a> sampling colors by eyedrops tool by TPGi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">Kay recommended working on the text-only version to accompany the deck in order for it to raise fewer barriers for people and be more accessible.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"reader-text-block__heading1\"><strong>Testing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">After sharing the amended presentation with a few friends who experience\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/superpowerseries.co.uk\/\">dyslexia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd\/\">ADHD<\/a>, I got this feedback: &#8220;I like the font, it&#8217;s easy on the eye, background color not being stark white is a little more relaxing to read; I like the use of color and copy hierarchy to help me differentiate the sections!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Design is iteration. Negative feedback is the best kind you can ever get.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">That&#8217;s when I realized I can close the iteration and focus on the next thing I was trying to improve, outside of the report itself.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"reader-text-block__heading1\"><strong>My Takeaways, Your Takeaways<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__heading2\">Here are eight rules I carried out of this experience for accessible presentation design:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Start in PowerPoint.<\/strong> Save yourself time, it has the most mature accessibility checker applied to the slides in progress. (I hope one day soon Pitch and Google will follow suit with a decent way to check and implement document accessibility.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Think purpose!\u00a0<\/strong>Make sure everything within the page has a purpose<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and nothing is decorative. Decorative shapes often clutter the experience for those using screen readers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Declutter.<\/strong>\u00a0Look at the page. Declutter again. Leave enough space: margins, padding, leading.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Left-align copy.\u00a0<\/strong>The paragraphs are easier to read for people with dyslexia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Choose your font wisely.\u00a0<\/strong>Opt out for a simple font\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-readability-group\/a-guide-to-understanding-what-makes-a-typeface-accessible-and-how-to-make-informed-decisions-9e5c0b9040a0\">that prioritizes legibility<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on the sequence.\u00a0<\/strong>Construct pages as if you were reading them in a sequence. Think about the hierarchy of pages in markup terms (header, image, body), as that is the order that screen readers will read it out in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Craft your alt text. <\/strong>Do this for every image except for the ones like headshots where the name is next to the image.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/add-alternative-text-to-a-shape-picture-chart-smartart-graphic-or-other-object-44989b2a-903c-4d9a-b742-6a75b451c669#:~:text=Toggle%20Automatic%20Alt%20Text%20on%20and%20off&amp;text=Select%20File%20%3E%20Options%20%3E%20Accessibility.,option%2C%20and%20then%20select%20OK.\">PowerPoint has a feature that enables to auto-generate alt text<\/a>, which is a great start.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iterate.<\/strong> Once you&#8217;re done, run it through software, and talk to people including accessibility experts and the community.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 class=\"reader-text-block__heading1\">To Conclude<\/h2>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">Design is iteration. Negative feedback is the best kind you can ever get, it will make you better instantly. I treasure it. It made me reconnect with amazing people who have helped me through this process and have numerous accessibility conversations with my team sharing my own learning. I absolutely love how kind and welcoming the accessibility and inclusion community is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/design-own-research.notion.site\/Workshop-learnings-afdd65a40f544ca1a2aa57a4b2969bb0\">Here goes the report<\/a>\u00a0that can now hopefully be enjoyed by many more people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inclusive researcher shares her journey to making one presentation more accessible along with accessibility resources and takeaways for other designers. 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