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New Reading Order Pane in PowerPoint for Mac to make slides accessible

PeteWu

Microsoft

May 19, 2025

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu, a Principal Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team. I’m excited to announce an improvement to Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac that allows you to adjust the or...

The Reading Order Pane item in the Check Accessibility dropdown on the Review ribbon tab

Updated May 18, 2025

Version 1.0

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jbmeded

Copper Contributor

Apr 22, 2026

Hi, Pete, thanks for this info related to reading order on Macs. I am having two issues: 1) I uncheck and then manually sort relevant rows and then Microsoft does not "pass" my changes (in other words, reading order issue still shows up) and I have to go back and fiddle around; and, 2) I see "sort by rows" and "sort by columns" buttons at the top of my reading pane and am not sure how to use these effectively. Appreciate some help.