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Section 3.1: Slide Themes
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Open a blank presentation in Google Slides.
Go to the Main Tool Bar.
Click the “Theme” button. The Themes side panel will open up to the right. Choose a theme for your project. Click the Yellow Import Theme button.
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This slide has a much more simple look and the text has a strong color contrast ratio.  |
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As a general rule, create any slide for your Google Slides project with the prebuilt slide designs. By creating your own designs, you are risking the slide to look out of order, less organized, and less aesthetically pleasing. By using the prebuilt designs, the presentation will be easier to read, and understand. |
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When you create a slide, you want the reading order to remain consistent. To do this, you want to choose slides that have a similar layout. You want the title to be at the top, so it will be read first. Then any text you have would go under the title and read second. Finally, any photos you have on your slide will be to the right or under the text to be read last. Some slides are built for the photo to be at the top or the title on the bottom. We do not use them because screen readers will read the title first. This mix up could make people who use screen readers have a harder time reading the slide.
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This slide has a title box below the content text box. This will confuse readers since the title should always be read first at the top. |
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This slide has the title box and content text box in the correct places and will be read in order.  |
Section 3.3: Slide Titles
Each slide needs to have an accurate, and informative title. The slide title informs the readers on what the slide is about. It is also a good idea to put the title at the top of the slide. This will allow readers to see the title before anything else. Also keep in mind that every slide should have its own name. Try not to have the same name repeat on multiple slides throughout your presentation.
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This slide shows a list of ideas on what to see, do, and learn about when travelling to Japan. However, the slide does not have a title. This is inaccessible because the readers will not know where to begin in reading the slide or know what the slide content is about. |
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This slide shows the Dos and Don'ts when travelling to Japan. The slide has a clear title that explains exactly what this slide is about.  |
Section 3.4: Theme Builder
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Section 3.6: Headers and Footers
Headers and Footers footers should be added by creating inserted in the Theme Builder or Layout Builder using a new text box . This way, the user can just press the tab button to access it. Just be sure to follow our Reading Order rules in Chapter 4 of our series to make the screen reader read them first. To create a new text box,
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Go to the Main Tool Bar.
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Click the Text Box button. Then click on your slide and drag to make your text box the size you want.
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or image. Many people’s first instinct would be to insert a Header or Footer through the Insert tab. However, this action creates text boxes that will be read like any other part of the slide. To create your header or footer,
Go to the View Tab, and select the Theme Builder.
With the Theme Builder open, copy your image and place it on your slide.
Exit the Theme Builder and the image is now on every slide. The screen reader will also not have access to it, so this method will save the reader time.
Section 3.7: Footnotes
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Google Slides does not have a way to create columns within a text box. The best thing you can do for making columns is to select a slide design that has two text boxes for your content.
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This slide has two text boxes for our text.  |
Section 3.9: Superscripts and Subscripts
Superscripts and subscripts should be avoided because screen readers will read them as regular text. The best way to write the information with superscripts or subscripts is to write down the words completely.
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This equation for photosynthesis is typed with superscripts. |
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The equation is written out in full words and will be easier to read, especially for people with screen readers.  |
Section 3.10: Specifying the Language
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Google Slides allows you to have two languages in a slide. Keep in mind that a spell checker will only work for one language at a time. To avoid any issues, you need to specify the language used to Google. That way it will know which language is being used and can check it accordingly.
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