Captions written for the voice, not the slide

Council rooms reward short sentences. A chart that looks tidy on a laptop often fails when the presenting officer must explain it while members skim paper copies.

For briefing visuals, we write captions as spoken lines first — twenty seconds or less — then trim the on-slide text to match. The leave-behind can carry the footnote; the spoken line carries the claim.

Try reading your current captions aloud. If you need a second breath before the verb arrives, rewrite.