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How to create accessible course material for Microsoft word 2010, part 2,
adding headings to your document.
The very first step would be to place your content in a logical reading order,
this is fundamental to creating any accessible document.
Next you want to change the headers to the style you would like on the page.
By just changing different titles you are not going to get the navigation with screen reading software
so you have to change the headers. To change the style you want to click on the little arrow
to the right of the heading boxes. Generally you are going to be using headings 1, 2, and 3.
To change the format of the heading right click on the heading box that needs to be changed,
then click modify. You can do this for any of the headings. Here the headings are defaulted to
different styles, sizes and colors. You can change anything you want to in here
and then by clicking okay it will add it to the template so that as you go down the document
and mark the headers you won’t have to continually change the styles of them.
I recommend to changing all of your heading properties to what you want your document to
look like so you don’t have to go back and change each header when you want to change a
font size or style. To mark a header you want to select the text that you want to make a heading
and then simply click on the heading you want to use. I selected 3 different words that might
make sense for headings. The title I would mark as Heading 1,
the Chapter I would mark as heading 2 and the sub head I would mark as heading 3.
You can continue with your document though out the different headings as you go.
Once you have added headers to your document or you have marked headers throughout your
document as your creating it accessible you can move on to the next step,
which would be to fix any excessive spacing.