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Use contrast to make your text and colors pop!

May 6, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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powerpoint-tips-contrast-colors-text-pop-1​I’ve been working on some training about presentations that are accessible to people with sight and hearing challenges and have learned some techniques that I believe everyone can use.

One has to do with increasing contrast between the background (of the slide or a shape) and the text. When you do this, your colors become richer and your text is much more clear. This helps your viewers to focus on your content.

PowerPoint 365 now gives you hexadecimal stats for colors. Hexadecimal is the system used for websites. It’s similar to the RGB (red-green-blue) system that PowerPoint has used for years. I say this because the service that you can use to measure contrast uses hexadecimal notation.

How to check for color contrast

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: accessibility, color contrast, contrast, test for color contrast

Transcribe or translate your live talk in PowerPoint with a Star Trek twist

February 26, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein 15 Comments

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If you have Office 365 (the subscription version that is always updated), there’s a new feature coming out that is truly extraordinary! If you’re in the Office Insider program, you may have it already. Otherwise, you’ll get it when it’s rolled out to everyone with Office 365.

As you talk, PowerPoint will display what you are saying on your slides — or translate it into any of more than 60 languages. 60!

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Right now, it understands 6 spoken languages: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Delivery, User Interface Tagged With: accessibility, Klingon, languages, real-time translation, subtitles, transcribe, translation

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