Sighted users do instinctively understand the need to add headings – many long documents are filled with chunks of differently formatted text which indicate a new topic. Examples of how formatting changes are used to indicate topic changes or sections within a document. The image below shows a set of headings within a Word document about the mountain laurel (the state flower of Pennsylvania). Semantic headings create a “clickable table of contents” for a document which can be extracted in a screen reader. Yet it’s one of the guidelines that is hard for many sighted users to conceptualize. Inserting “Semantic headings” into documents is one of the most important accessibility guidelines for those who use screen reader software applications.
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