More accessible presentation slides can be the difference between your audience fully engaging with your content and your audience tuning out and missing out. And, if your audience miss out you miss out! Luckily, there are some easy steps you can take to increase the accessibility of your slides.
There’s a lot we could cover under the umbrella of more accessible presentations – how you present, the language you use, distracting/flashing animations, presenting online, how you share slides and more. In this guide, we’re focusing on visual design considerations.
Creating more accessible slides doesn’t only phone code for lebanon remove barriers for users with obvious disabilities, it also unlocks your content for those with invisible or poorly understood impairments. Your audience may have different needs at different times and, with the rise of remote working, you don’t have control over their environment. Your audience view your presentation on different devices and in different lighting conditions. So, ensuring your slides are more accessible will improve the effectiveness of your presentation for everyone.
Using a clear, familiar font will help your audience understand your slides effortlessly, especially those with visual impairments or cognitive impairments such as dyslexia which affects 9-12% of the population.
Avoid using overly stylised, condensed or cursive fonts, and instead pick a commonly used, sans serif font with distinct letters such as Arial, Calibri, Verdana, Tahoma, and Century Gothic.
Different font weights affect the contrast of your text and poor contrast means poor legibility. Light and thin font weights can be more difficult to see, so using regular, medium or semi-bold font weights can improve contrast and readability, especially at smaller font sizes.
Unhelpfully, there are no hard and fast rules about font sizes.
The best font size depends on your content and the environment you’ll be presenting in. BrightCarbon has done some experimenting and, for sales and training presentations using PowerPoint’s default widescreen slide size commonly used fonts, our team recommends the following font sizes: