How do I use paragraph styles for accessible headings in Adobe InDesign?
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InDesign has something called styles, which are like special instructions for how things should look in a document, kind of like the rules for how a webpage should look with CSS. These styles help keep the structure and meaning of the document separate from how it looks.
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Screen reader users can move through documents more easily by using the headings. They can jump from one heading to another, listening to the hierarchy of headings and getting a sense of the document's organization without reading every word. This makes it faster to find specific sections of interest.The heading structure helps in understanding the document quickly and efficiently. Instead of reading the entire document, screen reader users can listen to the headings first to get a mental map of the content. It saves them a lot of time and allows them to focus on the parts that are most relevant to them.
Section 1.3: Headings can be Styled in Many Ways
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Big bold text doesn't count as a real heading. A heading in InDesign isn't really a heading until it has been mapped to a heading tag.
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To create a Heading Style,
In the top bar, click the Type Tab. In the dropdown menu, click Paragraph Styles.
Create a new blank style by clicking the New Style icon in the bottom right corner. Double-click on the new style to open the Style Editor.
In the Style Editor, go to the General Category, type in a Style Name.
Go to the Basic Character Formats Category. Modify the styles appearance in what ever way suits your needs. You can change the fonts, size, positions, margins, etc).
Go to the Export Tagging category. Click the EPUB and HTML tag dropdown menu, and choose your tag. Choose the same tag in the PDF Tag dropdown menu. Click OK to exit the box.
To apply the heading to the text, place the cursor on the text in the document. Select the heading level from the Paragraph Styles pane. The text will change to the new style.
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Please keep in mind to avoid using the paragraph and font formatting tools in the Control Toolbar.
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The text before the new style was applied. |
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Text after the new style was applied. |
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