DEIJ Minute – Accessible Presentations and Visuals – June 20, 2025

When making scientific publications, including presentations and slideshows, the visual display of the information can help those who are visually or hearing impaired. For text, concise and clear language is a big help, as is careful consideration of line spacing, font family, and line length. For figures, colormaps that are colorblind friendly and using shapes or other methods apart from color to distinguish categories are more accessible. See the resources below for more information!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00141

https://www.jmu.edu/accessibility/_files/presentation-best-practices.pdf

https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog/2018/6/26/accessible-data-viz-is-better-data-viz

https://teachinghub.bath.ac.uk/guide/accessible-maths-diagrams-and-figures-guidance/

DEIJ Minute_06-20-2025_Accessible Presentationa And Visuals.pdf

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