Policy

Stop checking to ensure a meaningful order of objects on slides

This policy setting prevents the Accessibility Checker from checking if a slide has non-placeholder objects which might be read back out of order. If you enable this policy setting, the Accessibility Checker will be prevented from checking if a slide has non-placeholder objects which might be read back out of order. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, slides will be checked for objects which might be read back out of order and any issues will appear in the Accessibility Checker.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 / File Tab / Check Accessibility
Policy ID b5b482518d2b
Internal name L_StopCheckingMeaningfulOrderOfObjectsOnSlides

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\powerpoint\accchecker\nonplaceholdershapes (enabled) = 0
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\powerpoint\accchecker\nonplaceholdershapes (disabled) = 1

Policy notes

This policy setting prevents the Accessibility Checker from checking if a slide has non-placeholder objects which might be read back out of order. If you enable this policy setting, the Accessibility Checker will be prevented from checking if a slide has non-placeholder objects which might be read back out of order. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, slides will be checked for objects which might be read back out of order and any issues will appear in the Accessibility Checker.

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