Library: Technology: Presentation Software

Accessibility and Presentations

Plan to make your presentations accessible to everyone in your audience. Use a large font with good contrast. Verbally describe important images and information in case some cannot see it well. For online presentations, ensure a screen-reading program can read all of the information in the correct order. Caption audio-visual information or provide a transcript. Provide graphical information in another format. Note that some software makes adding accessibility easier (Google Slides, PowerPoint) than others (Prezi, Haiku, Adobe Spark).

How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
Tips from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative on making your presentations, talks, meetings, and trainings accessible to all of your potential audience.

Google Slides

Google Slides
With Google Slides, you can create, edit, collaborate, and present wherever you are. Free; Linked to your UH Gmail account and your Google Drive.
Grackle Accessibility Plugin for Google Docs & Slides
The University of Hawaii system has licensed the Grackle plugin to help you ensure your Google Docs, Slides and Sheets are accessible.

Moovly

Moovly
This cloud-based multimedia content creation tool lets you quickly and easily make animated video presentations and animated info graphics.

Register with your hawaii.edu email address to get a free account with unlimited access to half a million video clips, illustrations, photos sounds and music to use in your presentations.

Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck
"Haiku Deck is the easiest way to create an amazing presentation on the web, iPad, or iPhone."
Education users get unlimited presentation creation, advanced privacy controls, download presentations for offline viewing, editing, and printing.
Haiku Deck Student/Educator Pricing
Register with your hawaii.edu email address for the student discount.

Keynote

Keynote
Part of Apple's iWork suite, Keynote works with Mac computers, iPads & iPhones. PC users with an iCloud account ($.99/mo.) can also use the online version.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint
View, edit, or create impactful presentations using PowerPoint.
This software is available on all of the computers in the WCC Library,
Free Office 365 for Students/Educators
Create a WCC computing account, then use it to get Office 365 Education for free. This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, Publisher, Access, and Outlook.
Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities
Tips from Microsoft.

Prezi

Prezi
"Presentations that move and inspire – Create more engaging, persuasive, and memorable presentations with Prezi, the alternative to boxed-in slides."
Prezi - Student/Educator Pricing
Register using your hawaii.edu email address for the student discount/free account.

Canva

Canva
A free cloud based presentation tool based on templates.

Technology: Presentation Software