Please use our template slides for your slides as they have fixed boxes for the lecturer feed (top right) and the captions (bottom).
- When creating your slides make sure you use a large font size. The bigger the better (note: that the template should already be set to the standard font size which might work, but feel free to enlarge it whenever you notice there is enough space on your slide).
- Other than the font size, please don’t change the template.
- Give your slides informative titles.
When using figures, use colors that people with colorblindness can differentiate, too. See this blogpost for more information on colorblind friendly colors. Three potential palettes are located at the bottom of this post. You can also do this by using different lines when plotting in a graph.
You can provide alt-text to your figures in Google Slides, Powerpoint and Keynote. In Google Slides you can right-click your figure and select Alt text. Describe in 2 sentences what is shown in the figure. Do not specify that your Alt text is describing a figure, the user already knows that. Please also do not include links in your Alt text as screen readers have difficulty accessing these links. A great structure for alt text of scientific figures is: one sentence on the type of data, oftentimes the x- and y-axis can help and one sentence on the take-away or result of the figure.