Inverting PowerPoint Slides
One accommodation that students with visual impairments might need is to have PowerPoint slides improved for readability.
Recommended Formatting:
- Size 20 pt font
- Black background with white font
- Sans Serif font (Ex: Arial, Helvetica, Calibri)
- Invert image/graph coloring
How to Invert Slide Formatting:
1. Open the slideshow that you need to adjust and go to the first slide.
2. Make sure that the smallest font size is above 20 pt and that you are using a Sans Serif font (see above).
3. Highlight the font (ctrl + a) and change the font color to white.
4. Click off the text or images that you may have selected so nothing is selected on the slide and click on the Design tab on the ribbon.
5. In the Customize group, select Format Background.
6. In the Format Background menu, change the Fill to Solid Fill and the Color to Black.
7. At this point your slide should be readable and inverted. Repeat for each slide in the PowerPoint. The next step is to invert the images on each slide.
How to Invert Images:
1. Right click on the slide that you need to invert and select Save as Picture. Name the file so you can remember which slideshow and slide the image came from.
2. Go to where you saved the photo and select Open With > Paint
3. Select the image (ctrl + a). You will know it is selected when there is a dashed line on the border of the image.
4. Right click on the selected image and select Invert Color.
5. Save the finished image.
6. Go back to the PowerPoint and insert the inverted image by going to the Insert tab and clicking on Pictures.
7. Finish by resizing the image and placing it in the correct location on the slide.
8. Repeat for the remaining images in the slideshow.