yeah I dunno fi they are willing to do all of that for me but I'll try, once I find where they are on the learning site. roar. I should not have been sick this week. On Apr 21, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Sarah, > > First of all, your professors can generate PDF versions of their PowerPoint > presentations that are accessible. There's a mode where they can generate > handouts of the slides in this format, and sometimes conferences will ask > that presentations will be provided in this format, if only to get around the > incompatibilities between different versions of PowerPoint where fonts are > either missing or rendered incorrectly when the raw PowerPoint files are > provided. Keynote, Open Office, and various other presentation applications > also have this feature. The easiest way to read the PDF versions of such > slides is to use Skim in presentation mode. You can set this from the view > menu on the menu bar, or use the shortcut Command-Option-P to go to this > mode. This assumes that your notes are displayed one slide to a page. They > could be printed out two, four, or six slides to a page, and then you would > just have to use normal portrait or landscape orientation. As I recall, > Preview's f > ull screen mode doesn't work as well. Skim also has a full screen mode, but > it also has a presentation mode that works pretty well. You can also use the > export to PDF option (under the File menu for Keynote, select export) the > same way that your professors can export their PowerPoints to PDF, and make > your presentations with Skim. The view menu options for Skim include > presentation options (Command-Control-T) for slide transitions, etc. > > Now, it's possible to make the output from PowerPoint not accessible to > VoiceOver, but I don't think that's the default if they export the slides as > PDFs, and don't try to do any fancy compression on the output. There are > other ways that the slides could be inaccessible, such as if a graphic, like > the screen capture of a slide with text were used in place of the actual > slide with inserted text. However, I know that 5 years ago there were Mac > VoiceOver users who got along fine with the PDF versions of PowerPoint > slides, and that was back when Keynote was much less accessible. > > Furthermore, as it happens I just received a PowerPoint presentation as an > email attachment the day before your post, and was able to read the text in > each slide on my iPhone, which doesn't have Keynote on it. This is just the > QuickLook or Preview mode (or whatever it's called) that comes up by default > for this .pps file. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Apr 21, 2012, at 6:08 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> Oh i've had a play with keynote and when I click play nothing shows up in >> the slides just an ok button and a next pref button. Iv'e used it to >> rehearse my own power point stuff I have to do in class and it fails >> miserably. >> >> Take care. >> On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> Hello Sarah, >>> >>> Keynote will read PowerPoint documents. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> On 21 Apr 2012, at 08:04, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>>> Hello. My professors put up Microsoft power point presentations of their >>>> lectures up on our system at the university. I need access to these as i >>>> was gone. Is there a method I can access these via mac osx lion? >>>> >>>> Thanks. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
