Accessibility in Action: Making PowerPoints More Effective and Accessible

Accessibility in Action: Making PowerPoints More Effective and Accessible

Date and Time
Monday, November 2, 2026
11:00am -12:00pm (PT), 10:00am-11:00am (AKT), 12:00pm-1:00pm (MT)
Online via Zoom

Optional office hours will follow the session from 12:00 to 1:00pm (PT). Bring your own slides or practice with a sample presentation and get personalized help from the presenters.

Presenters
Ceradwen Tokheim (she/her), Instructional Designer, School of Medicine Analytics and Learning Technology (SOMALT)
Mary-Colleen Jenkins (she/her), Instruction Accessibility Specialist, Accessible Technology Services (ATS), UW Information Technology

Make your presentations easier for everyone to access and understand. In this interactive session for School of Medicine educators, participants will learn practical techniques for improving PowerPoint presentations for a wide range of learners, with School of Medicine-specific guidance. You’ll practice spotting and correcting common accessibility issues involving slide titles, reading order, meaningful links, images and alt text, color contrast, and lists, while exploring PowerPoint’s built-in accessibility tools. The focus is on manageable improvements that strengthen your presentations while building accessibility into your everyday workflow.

Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain how accessibility practices support users with a wide range of disabilities and learning needs
• Identify accessibility issues in PowerPoint slides
• Apply accessibility best practices for slide layout, text, links, images, and color

Part of the Accessibility in Action Series
The Department of Justice requires digital content to be accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act by April 2027. CLIME and SOMALT have partnered to offer this three-part series to help UW educators meet this requirement and create more inclusive learning environments. Each session stands on its own, and you can register for one or all three using the same form.

Other sessions in the series:

• Improving Word Documents for Every Learner: Friday, January 8, 2027
• Designing Pressbooks for Access and Understanding: Thursday, March 4, 2027