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Use capitalizations to show the IMPORTANT text. Be sure to use capitalizations sparingly.

Section 1.4: Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, or Underlined

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When using NVDA, bold, italic, underlined and strikethrough text is caught by the screen readers. The screen reader will say “Bold, John,” or “Underlined, Dan.” A good rule is to use bold text, italics, underlined, or strikethrough text sparingly. You do not need an entire sentence or paragraph underlined.

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This example uses bold, italics, underlined, and strikethrough text sparingly. Only change the important words. This will make the content easier to read.

Section 1.5: NVDA Settings for

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If you have a document that has strikethrough textWhen you use text that is bold, italic, strikethrough, or underlined, be sure you change to modify the Document Formatting settings in NVDA. To do thissettings in the screen readers. This will allow the screen reader to tell the reader of any bold, italic, strikethrough, or underlined text. To change the settings,

  1. In NVDA, go to the Preference Tab, then click Document Formatting.

    NVDA Settings with Document Formatting highlighted in a red box.
  2. Select the Font Attributes check box in the pop up box. Click Apply in the bottom right corner.

    The Font Attributes box is checked and highlighted in a red box. The Apply button in the bottom right corner is also highlighted in a red box.
  3. In JAWS, you can examine the font attributes at the cursor, including whether or not there is strikethrough, by pressing INSERT + F.

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