ELLAPowerPoint slide decks
Slides are built for a screen and a speaker. A reader who cannot see them, or who needs them in another form, needs more than the slides alone.
One limit to know first: ELLA does not make a new PowerPoint file from another type of document. It can only repair a deck you give it.
What ELLA can do
- Repair the deck. ELLA can fix reading order and add descriptions for pictures, and gives you the repaired deck as a new file. Your original is left as it was.
- Turn the deck into a Word file, an accessible PDF, a web page, an EPUB, large print or braille.
- Describe the pictures, charts and diagrams on the slides.
Ask for what the reader needs
A deck as a handout needs a Word file or PDF with the slide content in order. A deck as a talk needs the speaker's words as well as the slides. Tell ELLA what the reader will do: "Turn this deck into a Word handout with one heading per slide" or "Make braille notes from these slides."
What often goes wrong
- Slides with text boxes in an order that does not match the order on screen. A screen reader follows the order in the file.
- Pictures with no description, and charts that show a trend with no numbers.
- Text inside pictures.
- Slides without titles, which makes the deck hard to move around in.
ELLA reports what it fixed and what it could not.
Check it
Read the reply. Open the result with the reader's screen reader and go through it slide by slide. Check charts and diagrams, which are the likeliest to be wrong. The terms of service name diagram and chart descriptions as a place for care.
Step by step
See convert a slide deck.
Still stuck?
Browse the help centre, or contact support and say what you were trying to do.