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Provide lengthier details in notes and hidden slides for your audience to reference later.\n11\nProvide high color contrast.\nUse black text on light color backgrounds and white text on dark backgrounds to improve readability.\nLow contrast is hard to read\nHigh contrast is easy to read\nLow contrast is hard to read\nHigh contrast is easy to read\nUse Review, Check Accessibility to test for low contrast on this slide.\n12\nUse multimedia to engage your audience.\nSelect the options within the slide content placeholders to add videos with captions and images, icons, charts and SmartArt with alt text.\n13\nAccessible Presentations\nConsider your audience’s experience, size, location and  level of understanding.\nLearn more about creating accessible PowerPoints (go.osu.edu/Accessible-PowerPoint)\n14\nAllow your audience to download the   presentation.\nProvide descriptive hyperlinked text followed by the shortened web address in a pre-presentation email and on your first slide.\nRemember to shorten links (go.osu.edu) and use CamelCase when appropriate. Your audience will appreciate it!\n15\nEvery slide must have…\na unique and meaningful title, placed within the Title placeholder of one of the slide Layouts provided in the template, and a logical read order.\n16\nEnsure a logical read order.\nScreen readers read from the bottom to the top layer of the Selection Pane.\nSelect Home, Arrange, Selection Pane\nDelete unused layers\nPlace layers in reverse read order: footer, text/images, title, slide number\n17\nIs your content readable to your audience?\nVirtual audiences can sit close and see more content on slides, versus in-person audiences who sit far and see less.\nAlso consider the projection display size and scale your content (larger and less text) for smaller screens.\n18\nAdd meaningful alt text.\nImages, icons, charts and SmartArt can help increase understanding of concepts.\nSelect the outermost grouping, right click, Edit Alt Text, and provide a brief description. If the description has already been provided in text, the visual may be considered decorative.\n19\nUse hidden slides or notes to improve understanding and reduce cognitive load.\nThe scenario:\nYou want to show an image while you speak about how it relates to your topic.\nThe problem:\nSomeone who cannot see the image or who is looking at your presentation file only and cannot hear you will not be able to follow your talking points. 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