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Re: Word & PDF Style Question About Headings

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jul 11, 2019 10:07AM

First, JAWS won't announce or list custom Headings. We've been complaining
about this lack of support since 2003. Even if you base a Heading 1A or in
your case a Heading 3 No Top line based on a Heading 3, JAWS won't see it as
a Heading. It will appear in the TOC and in the Navigation Pane...anywhere
else but when you are going through the document either reading using JAWS
or trying to get a list of Headings.

I just checked with JAWS and I can use JawsKey + F to get the font
information and it tells me that Heading 1A is outline level 1. I renamed
Heading 1A to Orange Text and using the same keyboard command I get the name
of the Style and the outline level. However, as I'm reading the document,
there is no indication from JAWS that I am on a Heading despite the text
being in the Navigation Pane at its correct placement and despite being able
to use References, Table of Contents to generate an accurate Table of
Contents.

Again, we've been asking for this support since 2003. Looks like NVDA does
not support custom Headings either.

It should convert to H3 when the document is converted to tagged PDF if the
custom Heading is based on an existing Heading. Heading 3 No Top Line is a
custom Heading. I've not ever seen it in the list of Styles for Word..

Cheers, Karen