To #blind people with experience with #PowerPoint, I need help! My school wants me to create a #presentation with speaker notes and graphics, and I'm having extreme trouble even getting started. My info text box with my name, school, and date covers everything up, and I can't figure out moving it or how to get to speaker notes. I normally create assignments with #LaTeX, but I kept running into issues making a presentation that way. I'm on #Windows using #NVDA. Disability services made this sound doable and even easy, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case.#accessibility #MicrosoftPowerPoint #BlindStudent @mastoblind @main

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main There is a lot of chatter and claims about creating meaningful PowerPoint including some NFB presentations. The Latex command line will still get a Blind person much farther than Powerpoint guesses and approximations!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @kfjelsted @mastoblind @main Would you be willing to look at what I have so far and see if you can help with fixing errors? I'm getting a lot of "overfull" errors and issues with Biber not running. I'm getting extremely frustrated since this was due last week.

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    @RareBird15 @mastoblind @main Can you clarify what the environment you have set up and working for Latex that is functioning verses what you are adding/changing? It sounds like there is a lot of layers going on? As far as the late assignment it is always complex to try and build an environment and keep on track for the first use. Is there a way to hire a reader or disability specialist to help get the current assignment done in Power Point and at the same time build an independent accessible environment without trying to intersect the two objectives at this point?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    @kfjelsted @mastoblind @main I have PDF/UA tagging metadata in my presentation and according to GitHub Copilot chat, that's the problem. TeXLive 2025 on OpenSuse tumbleweed has a bug with that. I guess I'm going to try a manual TeXLive 2024 install and hope it's not too hard to manage.

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