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From: Wolfgang Berndorfer
Date: Mar 8, 2018 10:01AM

Phil, your solution sounds perfect for me. Yet I've to find the Word
functionalities to realize the TOC as you proposed.

But: How do you create an additional Heading 2 just for the TOC, which not
appears in the Word-generated TOC, but in the heading list of my screen
reader? The TOC not always follows under the title immediately:

Let's think about a meeting protocol: The TOC should probably contain the
agenda items. Between title and TOC is perhaps a table with informations
about date, location and participants.

@Dan:
I know no functionalities for screen readers to navigate to a Word title.
And the title might not be on the top of the document. Perhaps in a letter
there is first somehow a banner and the address an I there would give the
subject the H1.

Uniform heading hierarchies on websites, Word and PDF would be great for
screen reader usability.

What do you think?

Wolfgang

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von Philip Kiff
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An: WebAIM Discussion List; Swift, Daniel P.
Betreff: Re: [WebAIM] Heading Structure for Documents

The very sensible approach you describe is the one recommended by Microsoft,
and therefore also the one best supported by default templates in Word .

In my case, however, practically all Word documents I currently work on are
intended to be published as PDFs and in some cases also as HTML. My goal is
to reduce the amount of remediation required after conversion to other
formats so that when edits are required to the original Word source file, I
will be able to recreate the PDF and HTML versions with the least amount of
post-conversion work possible.

For what it's worth, in my templates I often edit the built-in Title style
so that it also has a Heading 1 outline level and matches almost identically
the visual style of a Heading 1. And I remove Heading 1 from the Quick Style
gallery in order to discourage other content editors from using it for
standard headings.

Phil.
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Philip Kiff
D4K Communications

On March 8, 2018 8:02:41 AM EST, "Swift, Daniel P." < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:
>Phil -- I'm curious as to why you would use the H1 for a title instead
>of the 'title' in Word? My approach has been title, sub-title (if
>warranted), TOC, and then headers. Taking this approach, the title
>will not appear in the TOC and you don't have to worry about remapping
>the headers and the TOC. Am I missing something or doing something
>completely wrong?
>
>Dan Swift
>Senior Web Specialist
>Enterprise Services
>West Chester University
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>Phil detailed a great strategy (below) for headings and then generating
>the TOC from them.
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>On 2018-03-06 3:40 PM, Wolfgang Berndorfer wrote:
>> If I generate a table of contents via Word functionalities in a
>> document with correct heading semantics, the heading structure seems
>> outlandish with one H1.
>Regarding the Table of Contents in Word, it is possible to customize
>your automatically generated Table of Contents to control exactly which
>headings are included and to map heading levels to whatever TOC style
>level you desire.
>
>I usually use a single Heading 1 in MS Word for the Title and then use
>Heading 2 and below for all the rest. Then I map Heading 2 to TOC 1,
>Heading 3 to TOC 2, Heading 4 to TOC 3, etc. And I exclude Heading 1
>from the Table of Contents altogether.
>
>And I usually create an additional Heading 2 style that I use just for
>the Table of Contents so that the Table of Contents itself does not
>appear in the Table of Contents.
>
>Phil.
>
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>Philip Kiff
>D4K Communications
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