Presentation Template

Overview

In preparation for our talks at DC Design Week and Creative Mornings, we decided to showcase our work and content in a web-based format.

Problem

The team at DC Design Week provided an accessibility course where we discovered that typical presentations tools can cause various challenges and exclude a large portion of our audience if not properly accounted for.

Solution

The purpose of this project is to enable Bixalers to create presentation content using a webpage instead of tools like Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons:

• Inherently more accessible and responsive
• Robust version control and collaboration tools with GitHub
• Better separation of content and presentation
• More open and shareable
• More fun

Results

Features include common templates, Bixal brand fonts and colors, example slides, automatic slide counts and next slide links, and an easily accessible page to presenter notes.

Tools used

• Bixal brand fonts and colors
• USWDS
• GitHub
• Jekyll

Reflection

You know all those times we wondered if our presentation had enough memes or animations? Turns out they weren’t needed because simple is best.

Accessibility is important. Be sure to reference the A11y checklist for your next presentation.