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From: Laura Roberts
Date: Jun 5, 2023 12:26PM

Thanks Karen.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me to go back to the original word doc
and change the styles of those headers. That is the way.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 12:07 PM Karen McCall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> There are two ways to do this:
>
> For shorter documents, you can create styles like "Heading 1 Chapter 1"
> using the same formatting, just creating different heading style names.
>
> When generating the TOC, you can go into the Options button in the
> Customize/Create Table of Contents and choose which headings to use.
> For longer documents, you can use Bookmarks and field codes. Don't worry,
> it is an easy process.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMAkiErPeuU
>
> The sound on the video is not good and I didn't see captions.
>
> I can send samples if you like and am going to update my Customized Table
> of Contents to show this as an option. I do have a sample of TOCs for each
> chapter but not in the main TOC for the existing tutorial. I just created
> one using Bookmarks and have attached it to this post. Hopefully it gets
> through..
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Laura Roberts
> Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2023 11:50 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] TOC with headings?
>
> Hi,
> I have a TOC where there are headings above the text and page numbers.
> [image: image.png]
>
> I've tried a couple alternate TOCI tags, but JAWS announced these as links
> when they are not. Is there any workaround?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Laura Roberts
> 413-588-8422
> > > > >


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Best regards,
Laura Roberts
413-588-8422