[Athen] Question about headings

[L Snider]

I will echo Karen, all the screen reader users I work with and know, who
rely on screen readers every day, want sequential headings. They also
dislike wasting time on trying to figure things out if they are missing or
off. I go further than WCAG, because I ask, why would headings have numbers
if they weren't meant to be used sequentially?

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:37 PM Karen McCall <K4mccall at outlook.com> wrote:


> I believe it is currently a PDF/UA – 1 failure.

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> I find myself searching for missing heading levels when heading levels are

> skipped. This wastes time. Did my screen reader miss something, did it

> crash, do I still have focus…where did the missing sections go?

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> But then I tend to write using sequential headings.

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> It frustrates me, checkpoint or not, when headings are skipped. It is like

> having a web document where the author liked the look of Heading 6 so made

> everything a heading 6. There is no way to navigate any meaningful

> structure. There is no content with subheadings or topics under them. I see

> this a lot on web pages too. Instead of using CSS or in Word, styles, just

> pick a heading level you like and use it for the entire document. Equally

> frustrating.

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> Cheers, Karen

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