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From: Jim Homme
Date: Jul 11, 2019 7:53AM

==========Hi,
I would love to be able to predict what will happen when working with this, to relieve stress. I'm glad I checked before I told someone to do a bunch of work they ended up not having to do. I almost told someone to change a lot of items in Word, but we noticed that they looked good to NVDA, when we created the PDF. Here is what happened.


* In Word, there is a style whose name is "Heading 3 no top line." As of this writing, I'm unsure if this is a built-in style, or if someone here created it. I had NVDA set to report style names and headings, because I wanted to catch paragraphs that looked to me like normal paragraphs that should be turned into built-in heading styles. When I also turned on the NVDA feature that reports headings, I noticed that for the styles I normally see in Word whose names are "Heading 1," "Heading 2," "Heading 3," and so forth, NVDA reported the style names and the heading and level. For example, it said "Style Heading3 heading 3."
For the style in question, NVDA said "Heading 3 no top line," which seemed to indicate that NVDA did not realize that this style was meant to be a heading level 3. I then checked the properties for the paragraph after I located one of these items. I noticed that the outline level was 3. I also noticed that the style in question is based on the built-in Heading 3 style. This seems to indicate that NVDA reports heading level based on style names, rather than outline level.

Now, finally, the question. Cjould this be an NVDA bug, or exactly what am I looking at here?

Thanks.

Jim


Jim Homme
Digital Accessibility
Bender Consulting Services
412-787-8567
https://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions