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Re: Something About Formatting Word Docs Feels Wrong For Whatever Reason

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From: L Snider
Date: Apr 23, 2019 4:03PM

I hear your point fully, but anyone I have ever known who has used a
screen reader daily has told me that the heading 1 was far more
instructive for them. I know that everyone has different experiences,
so this can change what one person does and why...Also PDF/UA-2 won't
likely adhere to heading levels, and I do not agree at all with that
one at all. So standards can be interesting...

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:12 PM Karlen Communications
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> But the title of a document should look different from headings in the document. We need the Title Style to be able to do that or we would be creating it.
>
> We need to ask ourselves if we are creating documents to meet a standard that is changing to allow non-sequential headings and documents to begin with any heading level or do we use best practices for creating more accessible documents?
>
> I use the Title Style all the time and if I want to adhere to PDF/UA I just use F2 in the Tags Tree and change it to <H1> in Acrobat. Given what we may have to remediate in the tags Tree, this is a minor remediation.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of L Snider
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Something About Formatting Word Docs Feels Wrong For Whatever Reason
>
> I echo Elizabeth in terms of headings of Word documents. I wish Word would take out the title style, as it confuses people no end in terms of headings (the logical choice would be to choose title for the title, not heading 1...). You can also not include the Heading 1 in the options of the custom table of contents, makes it easier when the table has to be updated (which I do constantly).
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 1:19 PM Elizabeth Thomas < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > I do the document title as heading 1. Main sections are heading 2. I know that some people have multiple heading 1s per document, and it's not actually incorrect, but I try to stick to one heading 1 per document, which is the document's title. This does, however, result in needing to manual remove the heading 1 from the table of contents. Also, Word's title tag maps to a <p> tag in the PDF whereas heading 1 just maps to heading 1.
> >
> > -Elizabeth Thomas
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I've been formatting my Word documents like this:
> > >
> > >
> > > * Title of document using Title style
> > > * Optional subtitle using Subtitle style
> > > * Main sections with Heading 1 style
> > >
> > > I've done this to keep the document title out of the table of contents, if it has one.
> > >
> > > This feels wrong to me, because if the same document were a web document or a PDF document, I might have the document title duplicated as a heading 1, with document sections at heading 2. For documents I want to convert to PDF, I don't want to keep changing styles.
> > >
> > > I'm keeping this simple just to illustrate what I'm saying.
> > >
> > > Does this seem like I'm obsessing too much about this to you, or just how do you do this?
> > >
> > >
> > > =========> > > Jim Hommegood plan?
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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