This is a suggestion related to making PowerPoint more accessible. A screen
reader reads the objects in the order placed on the slide. Currently, the
only two ways to get the objects in that order is place them in order or to
use the "Send to Back" feature. The latter can be tedious to work.

Microsoft Access has a tab property for forms where you can open the
properties of a form and rearrange the tab order for all the fields. It
would be nice to have something similar for a slide where we could do slide
properties and rearrange the tab order instead of having to change the
objects one at a time.


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Linda Adams
http://www.hackman-adams.com
http://www.david-hedison.com

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In article <48585A0E-6B1B-477E-8F04-(E-Mail Removed)>, Linda Adams
wrote:
> This is a suggestion related to making PowerPoint more accessible. A screen
> reader reads the objects in the order placed on the slide. Currently, the
> only two ways to get the objects in that order is place them in order or to
> use the "Send to Back" feature. The latter can be tedious to work.

Sure is.

But visit http://ppt2html.pptools.com

PPT2HTML was written at least in part to assist with accessibility issues.

No need to purchase anything, by the way. The free demo includes an
Accessibility Assistant tool that makes it MUCH simpler to change the Z order
of shapes on a slide and has a few other useful tricks as well.


>
> Microsoft Access has a tab property for forms where you can open the
> properties of a form and rearrange the tab order for all the fields. It
> would be nice to have something similar for a slide where we could do slide
> properties and rearrange the tab order instead of having to change the
> objects one at a time.
>

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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