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Accessibility Checker and Text Styles
I'd like to understand a little more of how the accessibility checker works for "Text Styles Defined". It says "Text elements should have defined styles, such as heading levels."
Does the checker validate if the heading levels used are in the correct order on a slide? For instance, if you had your slide title as H2, and the next line of text on the slide was H1, would it catch that the heading styles are applied out of order? Also, if a slide had H1 and then the next line of text was H3, would that be an error?
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Hey MelanieSobie-14
The "Text Styles Defined" looks for slides with a textbox on them and checks if any heading level (H1-H4) has been defined. It doesn't currently validate the order of the heading levels, and that's a great suggestion!
Hey MelanieSobie-14 - I apologize for not responding earlier, I was on vacation and just got back into the office today. I'm working on a response now and will respond today. I'll explain how this check works and what it's looking for.
I'm surprised no one has replied. I'm no expert but from what I understand the H# order is always H1, H2, H3 etc etc. If I'm correct if a page title is only 16points, it is still the title and should be assigned H1, no matter the size of the next header. So the sub title could be 30points and that should still be marked as H2.
If you have a text style that is a sub header for many slides, but you want to use that text style again as a header for even a single slide then you need to duplicate it and modify it to be a H1.
I don't think Storyline checks the heading orders, but an official auditing service might.
