Presentation Guidelines

Presentation Slides

All slides in the presentation must be easy to read and understand. A good layout makes your presentation easier to understand.Here are some recommendations:

  • Minimum font size is 32 point for heading 1
  • Minimum font size is 28 point for heading 2
  • Minimum font size is 24 point for text
  • Use common readable fonts (e.g. Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, and Calibri)
  • Avoid thin line fonts
  • Avoid capital letters, italics and underlined text
  • Write short sentences
  • Use bullet points, a maximum of five points per slide
  • Ensure sufficient contrast between text and background
  • Do not write text on a patterned background, on top of photos, illustrations or graphics
  • Graphical elements, images and diagrams should at least cover half the slide
  • Create presentations that have good readability even when printed
  • Select effects and slide transitions with caution

Oral presentation

The following measures are important for the dissemination of information and have great significance for all the conference attendees:

  • Keep your face turned toward the audience
  • Speak clearly and not too fast.
    This is especially important as we have speech-to-text interpreters texting the conference
  • Use the microphone, due to use of infrared hearing systems
  • Read all text in your presentation and describe the pictures, charts and graphical elements that convey information
  • Describe what you’re pointing at.
    Avoid words like “here” and “there”, “like” and “so” without describing in detail what it is about
  • Videos should be subtitled and visual interpreted
  • It may often be necessary to repeat questions asked by the audience

For more information, please see Web Accessibility Initiative’s guidelines for accessible presentations