Make your presentation easier for people to see and understand

With well-thought-out use of colors in your presentation, you can make sure that your content is accessible to a large audience, including people who are colorblind or have low vision.

1. Ensure that color is not the only means of conveying information. If it is, people who are colorblind might miss out on the meaning conveyed by particular colors.

   1. Click the Inspect without Color button.

   2. Check your slides in PowerPoint to see if you can read and understand them. If you cannot understand them with the grayscale filter, colorblind users might not be able to understand them either.

   3. Convey the information in additional ways, such as patterns, shapes, line styles, or text labels.

   4. After you are done making changes to your content, click the Inspect without Color button to toggle it off.

2. Use sufficient contrast for text and important graphics against the background colors. This will help people who are colorblind or have low vision to be able to see them.

   1. Use the color tools on the Accessibility ribbon tab to set the color of text, text highlights, shape fills, and shape borders. 

      Tip: Adding a border is a great way to make a shape have better contrast against the background.

   2. Check if there are any Hard-to-read text contrast warnings in the Accessibility Checker. The Accessibility Checker can detect common color contrast issues in text with or without highlights and hyperlinks in text boxes, shapes, tables, and SmartArts with solid, opaque colors.

      The Accessibility Checker cannot detect issues in the following cases:

      • Transparency

      • Nonsolid fills

      • Graphics

      • Text in charts

      • Composition of multiple objects and the background

See also

Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities

Make your presentation work with a screen reader

Add captions and subtitles to your presentation