10 Day Accessibility Challenge

Accessibility Challenge | Day One | Headings

Headings

Organizing Canvas pages by using headings helps users get a sense of the page’s organization and structure. Visually, headings are presented as larger and more distinct than surrounding text. Making texts larger helps guide the eye around the page. Using headings and making them visually apparent is especially helpful for users with cognitive disabilities.

If the underlying code for a page's headings is correct, screen reader users can also benefit from headings. Screen reader users can navigate a page according to its headings, listen to a list of all headings, and skip to a desired heading to begin reading at that point. Screen reader users can use headings to skip the repeated blocks of content like headers, menus, and sidebars, for example.

Accessibility Headings

Submit the Challenge

For today's challenge we invite you to review one of your Canvas pages that has a minimum of three headings. Check to make sure your headings are accessible and submit the URL of the Canvas page to the following submission portal: Accessibility Day One Challenge

Please keep in mind the following friendly reminders:

Make sure that your heading levels are properly nested, without skipping a level.
Select the appropriate Canvas heading level in your hierarchy. Do not select heading levels based on their appearance. (You can edit the text format if desired.)
Avoid using bold instead of a heading style. One of the most common accessibility mistakes is making text bold when a heading is needed. Though the text may look like a heading, the underlying code is not set correctly.

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