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Enhance the accessibility and readability of your presentation.

The World Wide Web is far from WYSIWYG—what you see is usually not what you get. What you see

on your browser is only one rendering of the many possible ways a web page may appear to users.

This exibility isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as it allows HTML to be converted to speech, to t on

small mobile screens, be spidered by search bots, or be rendered by nongraphical browsers. It also

allows the reader of a document to make changes in their browser options to adjust the document—

for example, a sight-impaired person might want to increase the document font size. Catering for all

these kinds of devices and user needs is called accessibility.

Accessibility in part depends on the tools you use to generate the HTML. In the case of Google

Presentations, you don’t control the HTML during creation—it’s possible that the presentation as

generated by Google just won’t adjust to a mobile phone display, for instance. However, you can

still ensure that you use certain fonts, colors, and other design elements so that the presentation

is clearly decipherable when viewed. Here are some tips to help you achieve this.

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embed fonts for viewing, the browser tries to nd the font on the local system. If ...