{"id":30229,"date":"2026-02-24T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30229"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:42:42","slug":"paragraph-styles-for-document-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/paragraph-styles-for-document-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Paragraph Styles for Document Accessibility"},"template":"","news_categories":[91,23,65],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-30229","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-accessibility","news_categories-admin-note","news_categories-inside-ahs"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","hide_subtitle":false,"intro_text_body":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>When creating documents in Word or Google Docs, it is important to tag your headings using the built-in paragraph styles formatting settings. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By tagging headings with paragraph styles, screen reader users will be able to navigate your document.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1SiBaf-B73u-skpFy0_4fU3LyE0jdyE2nIsvvdG4-Oow\/edit?usp=sharing\">Paragraph Styles Formatting Tip Sheet<\/a><\/strong> to learn how to tag headings and format your documents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This tip sheet includes information on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are paragraph styles?<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Tagging headings<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Creating accessible white space for PDFs<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">How to review the structure of your document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or require additional support, you can drop in during an<a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/new-accessibility-specialist-office-hours\/\">\u00a0Accessibility Specialist office hours<\/a>\u00a0or<a href=\"https:\/\/help.uillinois.edu\/TDClient\/37\/uic\/Requests\/ServiceCatalog?CategoryID=301\">\u00a0submit a support ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Ryan Lemke","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30237,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30229\/revisions\/30237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=30229"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=30229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}