Module 3 | PowerPoint | Transcript | Tables
This video will demonstrate how to create accessible tables in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Many authors try to indicate header row or columns by changing their appearance, such as making the header bigger or bold.
A change of this type, however, provides little or no information about the structure of the table. Instead, you'll want to set cell and row headers to ensure accessibility.
People using screen readers can have the row and cell headers read aloud as they navigate through the table.
Screen readers speak one cell at a time and reference the associated header cells so that the reader does not lose context.
Let's take a look at how to do this.
Place your cursor anywhere within your table. From the ribbon select Table Design. Here you will see the option to select Header Row and if appropriate, a Column property also.
I'm going to de-select these options to also show you how the Microsoft PowerPoint Accessibility Checker will flag issues within the table.
To do so select Review from the ribbon and then select Check Accessibility.
Here we see that the Accessibility Checker has flagged that there is no heading in our table. By selecting this area in the Accessibility Checker it also highlights the table within the PowerPoint slide where the issue exists.
If I scroll down a little further in the Accessibility Checker area, it also gives me some information about why this is an important issue as well as the steps to fix this particular issue.
Thank you very much for watching.