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