Deckless App: create your slides in MarkDown

Hello, I place this topic into Windows section as I have tested this web tool with Windows 11 operating system and JAWS 2026 but it's basically a web site and it should work in every setup.

This web app is called Deckless and its purpose is to build presentations (slides, power points) through MarkDown only syntax. The same MarkDown used in AppleVis.

WebSite

Deckless.app

Service is completely free and it's a beta version, its purpose is to make short presentations from basic notes but let's admit that it's very useful for blind folks. Only required data are first name, last name, e-mail, password.

How to use Decless

The Deckless interface has some unlabeled buttons. Or, better, the labels are set into the HTML "title" attribute on each button so it's better to keep JAWS to read both labels and titles on controls, on customized settings for that web page. Or VoiceOver hints on, with the rotor.

Here's the list of controls, from to the first to the last, sequentially in tab order: - go live with your presentation -create a shareable lkn,ò - light/dark mode - the profile menu where you can sign out - decks: the list of decks -presentations- you created - media library (this part has drag&drop and isn't accessible). But images and audio could be uploaded through markdown and direct URLs to media). - icon and emojis - settings - help - switch to horizontal layout.

MarkDown help

There's another unlabeled button to export the markdown file .md, and a markdown help button with markdown signs. - title: # - subtitle: ## - new slide: --- (three dashes, it's the same of separator sign in MarkDown) - image: ![caption (URL) (without space between the square bracket and the left bracket) - bold: double-asterisk, then text, then double-asterisk - italic: single asterisk, then text, then single asterisk - list: a single dash, then space, then write the first item. Then new line, then another dash ... - link: [text] (URL)

...there are another couple contents listed, and, the beautiful thing is that pressing that markdown help button, gives the codes all interactive. Buttons. You press on what you want and they're reported on the editor. But honestly it's better to learn them and then to use keyboard directly.

Yes, could even write locally a markdown file and then paste it in the box.

Developer's e-mail

I just started contacting him with some basic accessibility feedbacks but I think it's useful we are many users who push him further.

darren at deckless dot app