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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Sep 3, 2011 4:33AM

But they wouldn't be out of order.

We can choose to move from H1 to another H1 in effect reviewing content at the highest structural level. We can do the same with other heading levels, but the document as a whole IS structured moving from H1 to H2 to H3 to H2 to H3.

So we can choose to get a list of headings and review or move to headings through a "complete" view of the document structure or we can "narrow our view" of the structure by moving through the document by specific heading levels.

In Word 2007 and 2010 you can also get a list of headings to review the structure of content by using the Navigation Pane, Alt + W, K. This would be "equal" to the screen reader functionality of listing headings.

Cheers, Karen

Out of Office, Sent from my iPad

On 2011-09-02, at 8:24 PM, LSnider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> I guess I was worried about the shortcut for listing all the headings, then
> they would show as H1, H2, H3, H2, H3 so out of order :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Will Grignon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:
>
>> Why would the H2 and H3 headings get confused?
>>
>> A screen reader user could either explore the page following the nesting of
>> headings by typing "1," "2," "3," etc., or simply navigate down through the
>> headings by using "h" (which would give him the basic layout of the page as
>> well as the relative values of the formatted headings.
>>
>>
>