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From: L Snider
Date: Feb 24, 2017 11:04AM

Okay, so it sounds like people expect more variation in non-websites, as
long as things are consistent and logical. I guess I always took a more
website point of view, and met people who wanted that as well.

Yes, I read that survey and it was really helpful. I appreciated you doing
that, as it fills in gaps in knowledge.

I would love a survey of what people view as the worst issues, as they must
encounter horrible docs every day.

I guess I wonder about docs, because most people I have met in my
adventures never think about making them accessible (including most
disability organizations), whereas they may have heard something about
websites. So do people who use screen readers daily have to expect
variation in docs? Should they? I know these are head in the cloud
questions, and I don't need answers, but I sometimes wonder how far we have
come in that end of things since the 90s (and then other times I see the
huge progress).

Cheers

Lisa




On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Karlen Communications <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The number of heading levels doesn't usually come up in talking about
> general documents as opposed to web pages. Most of us just want a
> consistent way to navigate content and figure out what the outline of the
> content is.
>
> If you look at both iterations of the PDF and the User Experience Survey
> http://www.karlencommunications.com/PDFsurvey.html
>
> I don't think you'll find feedback on the number of H1, H2 or H3 you might
> have in a document. Of course this might be because there are other issues
> that are more of a priority...Maybe I need to develop another survey...
>
> Cheers, Karen.
>
>