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Re: Word & PDF Style Question About Headings

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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Jul 11, 2019 9:49AM

"Heading 3 no top line" is not one of the basic built-in styles in the MS
Word "normal" template. From what you describe, It appears to be a variation
based on the Heading 3 style.

It was created by someone in your organization and possibly added to your
office's normal template so that it automatically appears in all new
documents.

-Bevi

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Jim
Homme
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:54 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Word & PDF Style Question About Headings

==========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
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