Section Headings
Answer
Projects with a text component (Research Guides, H5P Tutorials, Documents) should have a semantic structure using headings or headers. Some headings are automatically included in LibGuides and H5P. If you have not added any headings to these format types, some will still exist and will be descriptive and nested appropriately. If your project is long or contains a lot of information, you may want to consider adding additional headings to aid navigation.
Check to make sure that headings or headers are coded. In Libguides this means you're using the Paragraph format drop down menu or including <h> tags in your html. In documents, this means you're using Heading styles from the home ribbon.Coding your headers in this way is meaningful to a screen reader in a way that only changing the font, size or color of the text is not.
Examples:
Do
- use styles from the Home ribbon in Word to declare headings.
- use styles in the Rich Text / HTML editor in LibGuides to declare headings when presenting a lot of information or with floating boxes. Box titles, when visible are H2.
- tag headers in PDFs using Adobe Acrobat DC's Reading Order Accessibility tool.
Don't
- use coded headers just to change the look of text.
- change the look of text that should be a header without coding or styling it using header options.