WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Heading Structure for Documents

for

From: Wolfgang Berndorfer
Date: Mar 12, 2018 9:06AM

Thanks for all your inputs! I now know that a singular H1 document and a
fitting TOC for the document don’t exclude each other. It needs some effort
and I’m curious, whether I can convince anybody. But I will revise my own
templates.

Wolfgang


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] Im Auftrag
von Karlen Communications
Gesendet: Freitag, 09. März 2018 16:16
An: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Betreff: Re: [WebAIM] Heading Structure for Documents

I have a tagged PDF tutorial on creating a TOC and a custom TOC with
keyboard commands and sample documents with various types of TOC's including
a TOC for each chapter in a document:
http://www.karlencommunications.com/OfficeForWindowsAccessibility.html

Once on the webpage, get a list of links and then press C for Customize a
Table of Contents.

The tutorial takes you through using the Options button and the Modify
button in the TOC dialog. Everything is keyboard command based.

There are other tutorials with sample documents for more advanced document
components as well.

Cheers, Karen


-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
<EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 12:55 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Heading Structure for Documents

On 2018-03-08 12:01, Wolfgang Berndorfer wrote:
> Phil, your solution sounds perfect for me. Yet I've to find the Word
> functionalities to realize the TOC as you proposed.

In the Custom Table of Contents dialog, there is an Options button that
takes you to a listing where you can assign a TOC level to particular
styles.

In the Word 2013 for Windows version that I have in front of me right now, I
can get to the main "Table of Contents Dialog General" with the following
keystrokes:
[ALT] then [S] then [T] then [C]
And to open the Options dialog from there, press:
[ALT]+[O] together

Here is a longer explanation of shortcuts: [ALT] to activate single
keystroke shortcuts, then [S] to get to the References tab in the ribbon,
then [T] to get to the Table of Contents drop-down, then [C] to select
Custom Table of Contents, which opens the Table of Contents dialog. Then
[Alt]+[O] activates the Options button.

So, at that point, I have a Table of Contents Options dialog box that has
opened up on top of the main Table of Contents dialog. Within that Table of
Contents Options dialog, you can awkwardly use the TAB, SHIFT + TAB, and UP
and DOWN arrow keys to navigate entry boxes beside each Available Style. The
numbers you enter represent the TOC level. A blank entry means to not
include that style in the Table of Contents.

Mmmmm...quickly testing this now with NVDA, I can't actually figure out how
to get it to read the style names - it identifies them as "Style 1", "Style
2", "Style 3", etc, instead of "Balloon Text", "Footer", "Header", "Heading
1", "Heading 2", etc. And while I can get to the rest of the headings using
a scroll mouse, if I try to get there with keyboard only, it appears that
you have to TAB a 7th time to get to the scroll bar and then use the cursor
to scroll down and then SHIFT + TAB to get back. But then the form entries
are all identified again as Style
1 through Style 6 even though there are a whole new set of styles showing.

It seems to be a very weird input form.

Maybe a regular screen reader user can figure out how to get that Options
dialog to behave?

> 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?

Once you have a new style based on Heading 2, it will show up in the
"Available Styles" list, and then you can simply leave the corresponding
"TOC level" for that style blank. And it won't show up in your custom Table
of Contents when you regenerate it.

Phil.
http://webaim.org/discussion/archives