Three ways PowerPoint’s "Design Ideas" excludes your audience, and how to fix it.

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• Part 1: Design Ideas sets text in “all caps”.
• Part 2: Design Ideas centre aligns longer text.
• Part 3: Design Ideas suggests designs with insufficient colour contrast.

Introduction

PowerPoint’s Design Ideas feature helps us create attractive slides quickly. Unfortunately, some of its suggestions do not follow accessibility best practice, creating barriers that may exclude members of your audience. In this blog post we explain three issues and how to fix them. The examples shown here use the default PowerPoint template but are likely to occur whichever template you use.

In this three-part series we explain each of the issues and why they may exclude members of your potential audience. We then demonstrate how to fix each issue.

• Part 1: Design Ideas sets text in “all caps”.
• Part 2: Design Ideas centre aligns longer text.
• Part 3: Design Ideas suggests designs with insufficient colour contrast.

Over to you!

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