The Accessibility Minute-ish Episode 1

Welcome to The Accessibility Minute. I am your host, Alx Sanchez, and today we are building better documents. We've all been there. You want a new section to really pop. So you highlight the text, smash that bold button and crank the font size up until it screams look at me! Visually a masterpiece. Programmatically, it has the structural integrity of a wet paper tissue. When you only use visual styling, screen readers just see a massive, exhausting wall of regular text. A user who relies on assistive technology navigates by jumping from heading to heading, but they can only do that if the software actually knows they are headings, instead of just really loud paragraphs. Here is the fix, and I promise it takes the exact same amount of time. Instead of playing dress up with your font settings, go to your styles pane, highlight your text and click heading two. Boom! You've just created an actual programmatic relationship. This works everywhere in Google Docs. Just click the formatting dropdown and choose your heading level. If you hate the default colors, maybe heading two is a hideous shade of blue. Right click the style and modify it. You can have your cake and eat it too. Just remember structure first, design second. Use the styles pane. Save a screen reader user from a headache and make your documents work for everyone. That is your accessibility minute. Remember, true inclusion starts with proper structure. See you next week.