Using a screen reader to experience an embedded PPT presentation on the web

Question

Hello

I am working on a PPT presentation that will be embedded online. I need it to be usable by users of screen readers.

I built a draft and embedded it. Everything works great whether with a mouse or a keyboard, however, 2 issues arise when I run my screen reader:

1. Links read out, but I cannot seem to activate them. Nothing happens when I press return, space, or NVDA key+return. I need the links to function for everyone. Notes these are internal links, not URLs.
2. When the screen reader read a single block of text, it announces heading level 2 for every single line of text, even though it is all one block. It is really annoying and makes it hard to understand the text as a whole. Is it meant to do that? Seems like an odd decision is it is.

I am using Microsoft Office Pro 2016 and embedding via OneDrive. I've been testing with NVDA and Edge browser on Windows.

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Steve

The presentation isn't live yet, so I can't share it, but once it goes live I can.

Thanks

Answer 2

Can you share the URL to an example embedded presentation here?

It shouldn't contain any sensitive information but should reproduce the problem.

It would help if you copy/paste the description of the problem into a text shape on the first slide.