When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
@A11yAwareness It will also allow you to add in a Table of Contents with no additional work. @troypatterson
@ljwrites The year after I completed my dissertation, I spend endless hours helping classmates who had neglected my initial advice on using the APA template the MS had so thoughtfully provided. @A11yAwareness @troypatterson
@AlliFlowers I could not have done my thesis without Zotero's citation manager. I'd have ragequit. I know someone who did her references by hand and took three days fixing them 😱
@ljwrites Holy shit! By hand?! I used PERRLA. I can’t imagine doing it all by hand.
@AlliFlowers ikr?? Feels unfair that we earned the same degree, she should get at least 50% more accolades for sheer pain.
@ljwrites 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@AlliFlowers @A11yAwareness Indeed. I once had to do a very long report. So did another principal. We were both told that we had to make some changes at the beginning of a meeting. I made my changes and refreshed my Table of Contents. She just started and said “What did you just do?” Then went in to explain how she had spent most is Saturday creating her TOC. My quickest convert to headings
@AlliFlowers srsly I don't understand people who change individual formatting instead of using headers. They'd really rather make tables of contents manually and hunt through every faux-header to fix one (1) formatting change than learn to use the magic of technology that will do it all for them!
Or more likely, fob off that busywork to a more junior person *cries in 10 years of fixing academic documents* @A11yAwareness @troypatterson