To #blind people with experience with #PowerPoint, I need help! My school wants me to create a #presentation with speaker notes and graphics, and I’m having extreme trouble even getting started. My info text box with my name, school, and date covers everything up, and I can’t figure out moving it or how to get to speaker notes. I normally create assignments with #LaTeX, but I kept running into issues making a presentation that way. I’m on #Windows using #NVDA. Disability services made this sound doable and even easy, but so far that doesn’t seem to be the case.
#accessibility #MicrosoftPowerPoint #BlindStudent @mastoblind @main
@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main To get started, you can create a markdown or word file with all of your text. That way the slides will be made for you when you convert it to PowerPoint. You’re heading ones or the slide titles and heading to is the body of your slide. Once you do that, you can convert it to PowerPoint and have the basic presentation and then add your graphics and notes after that.
@DesireeRenae @mastoblind @main Hmm, I’ll have to look into this. I didn’t know you could make presentations with Markdown.
@RareBird15 @DesireeRenae @mastoblind @main Markdown works for standard presentations but it doesn’t cover math or special styles and citations. On the iPhone and Mac there is a presentation app called Deckset which is designed around Markdown which builds the slides automatically but it again doesn’t give the completeness of the Latex ecosystem.