Editing PowerPoint Accessibility Best Practices (section)

=== Basic reading order confirmation ===

# Slides that use a custom layout that deviates from the slide template placeholders will appear under Check Reading Order. The fact that they appear under Check Reading Order doesn’t necessarily mean that their reading order is incorrect; just that they require manual review. There is no way of marking a slide’s reading order as having been &ldquo;confirmed&rdquo;.
# Arrange the elements appropriately in the Selection Pane, keeping in mind that the screen reader will read from the bottom of the stack to the top.
## Navigate to a slide.
## '''Home tab''' > '''Select''' > '''Select All'''
## '''Drawing Tools: Format''' tab > '''Arrange''' > '''Selection Pane'''<br />[[file:Powerpoint-selection-pane.png]]
# Export a PDF and confirm reading order in the PDF.<br />''N.B. The PDF is for confirmation purposes only. It is not a file that should be distributed to the client as a compliant end-product document.''
## '''View''' > '''Read Out Loud''' > '''Activate Read Out Loud'''
## '''View''' > '''Read Out Loud''' > '''Read This Page Only''' -or- '''Read To End Of Document'''
## '''Tags Panel''' > navigate to the slide > expand the slide’s node > visually confirm order of tags within the slide
# Export as RTF and confirm reading order in the RTF. 
## '''Export as PDF''' 
## Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat.
## '''Save As&hellip;''' and select .rtf as the format. 
## Open the .rtf document (in Windows, the default program is MS Word).
## Read the document out loud using the Speak function.