Accessibility Approaches

How to Make Accessible Slides, Posters, Figures, and Emails

Accessibility means enabling understanding of your medical publications’ content by people with vision, hearing, physical, or cognitive limitations. Accessible materials make it possible for assistive devices to read digital content. This guide outlines the simple actions you can take to make your PowerPoint slides, posters, figures, and emails accessible. It includes detailed instructions for how to build in accessibility as you draft. The guide is a resource available only to ISMPP members.

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