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Type in your headings. In this example, we will use a vacation plan. Be sure that your text is descriptive enough that readers will know what is happening in each section.
Highlight your text that you want the screen reader to read first. In our example, we will highlight “Family Vacation 2024.” Go to the Main Tool Bar and select the Styles dropdown box. Then change it from Normal Text to Title.
Highlight your text that you want for your first group. In this case we will use “Vacation Planner” Go back to the “Styles Panel” and click “Heading 1”. Then highlight the text you want within that group and create a Heading 2.
Repeat this process for any additional levels and groups in your project. In our example, we have each day of the trip set as a Heading Level 3 and anything we want to do during . Any event for the day as is a Heading Level 4 and so on.
Your hierarchy is established, and now readers will be able to tell where the section starts and ends. Be sure to check the outliner for the hierarchy. The items in with Heading 2 must be under the items with Heading 1.
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Hierarchies are divided into two parts, Parents and Child. Every “child” has a “parent” and a “parent” can have multiple “children”. Think of a “parent” as a section of a list, the . The “children” are the multiple parts of a section in a list.
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Once you have finished writing an essay, book, syllabus, project, it is time to create a Table of Contents. A Table of Contents is very beneficial because it will give screen readers an outline of the project to read . Screen readers can read the outline to the reader without having to read dozens of pages of text. To create a Table of Contents,
Go to the Insert Tab and click Table of Contents.
The Table of Contents has been created. You will see that it looks a lot It will look like the outliner Outliner on the left side of the screen, and it includes page numbers. This is a good way to be sure that all of your content is in the correct order.
Once you have your Table of Contents, you can customize it to the way you like it. Just be sure that you follow the accessibility guidelines while making changes.
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