{"id":381,"date":"2016-10-12T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/authorsguide\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=381"},"modified":"2017-01-19T18:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:38:48","slug":"organizing-content","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/authorsguide\/chapter\/organizing-content\/","title":{"raw":"Organizing Content","rendered":"Organizing Content"},"content":{"raw":"Using chapters, headings, and subheadings to organize content allows students to clearly see how the main concepts are related. Headings are also one of the main ways that students using a screen reader will navigate through a chapter.\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Who\u00a0Are You Doing This For?<\/span><\/h2>\r\nEveryone benefits from having content that's clearly organized. In addition,\u00a0well-organized content supports students who:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Have a learning disability<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Are blind or have low vision<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2><a id=\"headings\"><\/a>What Do You Need to Do?<\/h2>\r\nHeadings help to identify the hierarchical structure of a document (e.g., sections, sub-sections). Headings provide a visual cue that helps sighted readers quickly navigate through sections of a document, skimming through content until they find a section they are looking for. Similarly, headings create logical divisions in the content and allow a non-sighted user to navigate a page or document easily using a screen reader.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to using visual references to indicate the hierarchy and structure of a document, you may be accustomed to just <span>changing the font, enlarging the type size, making it bold or underlined or italicized, <\/span>creating the impression of a heading. This approach presents problems when creating material with accessibility in mind because screen readers won\u2019t identify the text as a heading.\u00a0Instead, a screen reader will just \"read\" through bold or underlined text as if it were part of another paragraph of content,\u00a0 missing your intended cues about structure and organization.\r\n\r\n<strong>To\u00a0create effective, accessible headings<\/strong> in Pressbooks use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.support.wordpress.com\/visual-editor\/#styles\">styles in the visual editor<\/a> to tag sections in your chapter starting with Heading 2, sub-sections\u00a0with Heading 3, and sub-sections of sub-sections with Heading 4. The title of your chapter will be rendered to screen readers as Heading 1, therefore you should avoid using Heading 1 for sections within your chapter.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_383\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"211\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/accessibilitytoolkit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-20-at-8.59.58-AM.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-383 size-full\" alt=\"Heading Examples from Pressbooks Visual Style Editor.\" src=\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/authorsguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-20-at-8.59.58-AM.png\" height=\"337\" width=\"211\" \/><\/a> Heading examples from Pressbooks Visual Style Editor.[\/caption]","rendered":"<p>Using chapters, headings, and subheadings to organize content allows students to clearly see how the main concepts are related. 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Similarly, headings create logical divisions in the content and allow a non-sighted user to navigate a page or document easily using a screen reader.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to using visual references to indicate the hierarchy and structure of a document, you may be accustomed to just <span>changing the font, enlarging the type size, making it bold or underlined or italicized, <\/span>creating the impression of a heading. This approach presents problems when creating material with accessibility in mind because screen readers won\u2019t identify the text as a heading.\u00a0Instead, a screen reader will just &#8220;read&#8221; through bold or underlined text as if it were part of another paragraph of content,\u00a0 missing your intended cues about structure and organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To\u00a0create effective, accessible headings<\/strong> in Pressbooks use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.support.wordpress.com\/visual-editor\/#styles\">styles in the visual editor<\/a> to tag sections in your chapter starting with Heading 2, sub-sections\u00a0with Heading 3, and sub-sections of sub-sections with Heading 4. 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