From the course: Designing for Digital Accessibility in Online Learning

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Text layout: Headings, lists, links, and reading order

Text layout: Headings, lists, links, and reading order

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Text layout: Headings, lists, links, and reading order

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- [Instructor] Good design isn't just about what you say, it's about how your content is structured. When a learner opens your course, they're not reading every word. They're scanning, navigating and orienting. That's even more true for learners using screen readers or other assistive technologies. If your content doesn't have clear structure, it's easy to get lost, even if everything looks fine on the surface. That's where Semantic Formatting comes in. Headings, lists, links and reading order aren't just visual cues. They're how your content communicates its structure behind the scenes. Let's dive more directly into semantic order and start with headings. A heading isn't just big, bold text. It's a labeled element that screen readers use to understand hierarchy. When you use true heading styles such as heading one, heading two, and so on, you're building a table of contents that's accessible to everyone, and when…

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