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Reach everyone

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All right. Perfect. Thank you. Tammy, um, welcome everyone, uh to I believe our fourth edition of Equidox webinar wednesdays

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Uh, so this one we are going to be talking about heading structure and reading order.

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Uh, so some a little bit of best practices for both and the best ways

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of setting that up within equidox to do it efficiently and easily.

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If you have any questions or would like to see a follow-up

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Uh seminar maybe a webinar more specific to your specific use case, uh the PDFs that you're used to working with.

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All right. So with that said, let's jump into Equidox and take a look

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at a few sample documents that I've collected and put together

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So I want to get started with with heading structure...

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Heading structure is very important for PDF accessibility

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This is something that is critical to give the document structure to allow users to easily navigate

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the information contained within the document.

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So one way that I like to visualize this is if you just think about like a textbook for example

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that might have 20 separate chapters in it. It could be hundreds of pages long...

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Well, uh heading structure gives the end-user the ability to

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navigate from

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chapter to chapter to section to subsection with each one of those chapters

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So that they can navigate directly to the area that they are interested in

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Otherwise without that heading structure if everything was just left as text...

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well that structure would just leave them with... they'd have to listen essentially to uh to every bit of information throughout that textbook until

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they finally locate what they were looking for which... could take many many hours. So

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heading structure is absolutely critical in PDF accessibility.

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So I just have like a very simple little sample document here to kind of go through a couple of examples...

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Uh with uh, you know setting up heading structure and Equidox as well as the logic behind it

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so and then we'll actually put it into practice with maybe a document that is a little bit more reflective of what

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a PDF that you might be remediating looks like.

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So we're staring here at page one of this PDF and as you can see it's pretty straightforward.

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So this document we have a nice bold heading at the very top.

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Right now everything is currently marked as a text zone. You can see in the upper left hand corner...

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everything is marked as text because this was a completely untagged document to begin with, so it had no existing tag structure.

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So just by default Equidox assumes here that everything is in fact text until we change the property of that zone.

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to get started... It's very important that every PDF document have a heading level one. This is critical. It's just a requirement.

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So when you are setting that heading level one, you can see the drop-down menu for the zone type is currently set to text.

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We could hit the drop-down menu for the zone type and change it from text to heading.

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That's one way of going about it. So once you've changed that zone type to heading you'll then have heading properties that will populate below.

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And the first item there is the heading level and when you go through the drop-down menu just by default,

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the heading level will be set to one and that that can be adjusted up or down...

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either typing in the number or using the arrows to move it up and down to the appropriate heading level.

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Now there is another way of going about setting your heading structure.

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Which I definitely recommend if you are interested in being a little bit faster and more efficient.

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That's using our keyboard shortcuts. So if for example these subsections here underneath our heading level one...

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These are going to be set as heading level twos...

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And the way that I would go about setting these as heading level twos...

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Is I would uh, just tap "2" on my keyboard while I have that zone selected.

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so hitting the "2" key on your keyboard will automatically change it from a text zone to a heading and the

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corresponding number heading level 2. So if you hit "3" on your keyboard

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it will change it to a heading level 3, a "4" will change it to a heading level 4. So on and so forth.

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So to do this very quickly...

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We'll just select these extra zones and we'll just tap "2" and we are able to set our heading structure very quickly.

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now we can always check our work by looking at the preview, uh the preview page so in our HTML preview page.

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We're able to clearly see here the difference between the different. Uh

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The different fonts that are associated with each heading so we have this much...

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very large bold font here indicating that we have a heading level 1 for that zone that we did,

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in fact, set as a heading level 1.

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And then we have slightly smaller fonts down here for our...

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for our heading level 2s and then everything that was left as a text zone you can see is just...

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sort of stays, uh static in that

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size 12 standard font that you would see in any regular HTML document.

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So that's a very quick way of setting your heading structure.

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Using those keyboard shortcuts is really helpful.

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so I want to move on to

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another example

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sort of the logic behind setting heading structure.

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I always think about this a little bit differently

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In one example that I've been... that has been shared with me is a good way of explaining it

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is if you imagine like the example of books written by author JRR Tolkien?

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So we all know that he is a very prolific author and he's written many books.

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One of the most famous being the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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So if you had a document that was kind of going through the works of JRR Tolkien, uh, you might have...

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uh a large sort of running

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layout of all of the books that he's written. All of the chapter titles that he's written maybe even sub...

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subsections within each of those individual chapters.

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an outline essentially.

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So just starting at the top your document might contain a heading level 1. That looks something like this "Books written by author JRR Tolkien."

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So we would just tap "1" on our keyboard to set that as a heading level 1.

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Now the subsection of heading level 1 here is uh going to be the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Probably his most well-known work.

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So if we wanted to set theLord of the Rings trilogy as our heading level 2.

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Uh, we can do that by just tapping "2."

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Um, so we're sort of building this hierarchy now where we're drilling down into the actual works of JRR Tolkien.

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Uh, we're not just leaving something set as heading level 1, uh, and then everything else remains as text.

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We're not going to do that.

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We're actually going to give heading structures that you can drill down into the

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different books that make up that trilogy. And then even if you took it a step further into the individual chapters that make up that...

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Um that that uh, the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings.

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in the Lord of the Rings trilogy is of course the Fellowship of the Ring.

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So in this case, um, we have this document being that I just put this together.

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We've got dif... very distinct breaks in the font.

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So you might not always be this lucky depending on the document you're working on or it's pretty clear that this is in fact

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supposed to be set as a heading level 3 because you can clearly see the difference in the font.

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So if I were to set this as a heading level 3, I'll just tap "3" on my keyboard.

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And then within the Fellowship of the Ring, there are multiple books that make that up including the Prologue Book One and Book Two.

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So we might want to set those as heading level 4s because these three

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subheadings would fall underneath this heading level 3: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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So if I'll tap "4" on my keyboard for these individual...

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Uh for these individual headings... and if we wanted to take this even a step further

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Maybe I would have gone to the lengths of putting the individual chapters that make up each of these books.

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And those would of course be heading level 5s.

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And then of course there would be many thousands of lines of text if we actually went through

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and included all of the text that makes up these books.

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There would be thousands of lines of text. Of course that we would just leave simply as text.

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you will have data that is going to separate your headings.

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But in this case just to keep everything consolidated on one page. I wanted to try to

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explain this through the the the use of JRR Tolkien and his books.

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We're doing pretty well. So far. We have our heading level 1.

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We have our heading level 2 our first heading level 3 and then a series of heading level 4s that fall underneath it.

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Let's just take a look at the preview to just see how things are shaping up

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So we have our large font up here indicating our heading level 1.

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Slightly less large font right here indicating 2 and it...

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you can see it starts to get a little bit smaller the deeper into the heading levels that you go.

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So this is just a reflection of what you're doing and changing on that PDF page.

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So we still have more work to do down here with the other two books that make up the trilogy.

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So we will continue on we'll start here with the Two Towers now.

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We remember that the Fellowship of the Ring was a heading level 3.

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This is another major book in the trilogy.

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So we don't continue into the heading structure of setting this as a heading level 4.

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Uh, this is actually going to go back up just like it was for the Fellowship of the Ring.

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It's going to be set as a heading level 3.

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There are two other books that make up that part of the trilogy up so we would set these as heading level 4s.

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So you can see how we're kind of going back and forth. We're not just using heading structure

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almost as a reading order...

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The thing is I see people make this mistake from time to time where they will...

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they will set their heading level 1 and then they will just continue using the next heading level all the way throughout the document.

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I've even seen people get up to like heading level 20...

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You know, throughout a document because they just continue to set the next heading as the next level, which is incorrect.

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You never want to go beyond heading level 6.

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That is pretty much the maximum that you should that you are allowed to go.

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So anything once you get to heading level 6, that is the deepest that you're allowed to go into the heading structure.

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So don't use heading structure as a reading order. Uh, we're trying to build an outline or a hierarchy here of headings.

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For a for navigation purposes not setting a reading order with it.

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okay, so we've handled our Two Towers part of the trilogy, and then we're down here to the Return of the King which is of

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course another major piece of that trilogy. So we're gonna go back to heading level 3 here.

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So I'll tap "3" on my keyboard and then we have different books that make up the Return of the King.

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So I will set these as heading level 4s.

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many would probably say is like a separate book all on its own.

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So if we wanted to set that as a heading level 3  as well taking a look at the preview.

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Everything here is currently set as a heading which is sort of

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abnormal looking because

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you would typically have text and data and images and lists and that sort of thing that are breaking up your headings.

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But that is sort of the logic of applying heading structure if you can visualize if you were trying to break down

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the complete works of JRR Tolkien. You would use heading structure to explain that.

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Otherwise, if someone wanted to read Book 6 of the Return of the King...

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Well, they would have a lot of information that they would have to wade through before they finally got to Book 6 they would want

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to navigate straight to the book that they're looking for, and then even further into the chapter that they're looking for.

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Okay, so I have one other page on here that I just like to sort of visualize as...

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This is how I visualize heading structure: almost as if it's an outline.

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So maybe this is helpful for some people to just think about uh when you're working on heading structure, so.

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One heading level 1 for the document and then everything should follow underneath, uh heading level 2s...

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Subheadings of heading level 2 should be heading level 3s, subheadings of heading level 3 should be heading level 4s.

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So on and so forth...

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So this is the way that I personally visualize it.

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So I hope that's helpful if anyone had questions on the logic of setting up heading structure.

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And of course, it is very quick to set up heading structure in Equidox as we've seen here.

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One other thing about heading structure before we jump into reading order,

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Is the ability to set up a heading template now, this is reliant on the source document.

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As we know not all PDFs are created the same.

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Many times they have multiple editors. You might use completely different styles throughout.

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But if you do have a nice consistently formatted document...

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What you can do is use...

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So if I were to select this heading level 2 for example, and I check that use as template button.

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What Equidox will do is it will look forward in the document and it will apply a heading level 2

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setting for that zone, uh for every zone that has these same properties as the data contained in this zone.

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So every time it sees the same font style essentially as the

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heading level 2 that you set as the template.

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Equidox will automatically mark that as a heading level 2 the same thing can be done for heading level 3s, 4s, 5s, and 6s.

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So on and so forth...

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Uh, but again keep in mind that this is reliant on the source file.

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So if someone decided to change the way that they are formatting the document...

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if fonts and styles change throughout the document,

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you might this might not be as effective. So it can be reliant on your source file.

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But under the right set of circumstances, this is extremely helpful.

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And it will really help you be consistent throughout the document in your with your heading structure. As long as you have like I said

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a quality source document to begin with.

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Okay, so I want to also talk about reading order again a very important part of PDF accessibility.

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So if we just take a look here at this quick simple document.

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Um, so we'll jump in here and talk about reading order.

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Now sort of a continuation of the last document just for consistency's sake.

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Why don't we set some headings? So I would set this top one here as a heading level 1.

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I'll set these next sections or subsections as heading level 2s.

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But then we have a lot of text in between. Now,

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this is a pretty standard sort of the way that this document is laid out and formatted.

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We have a very simple top to bottom reading order.

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So you'll notice in the upper right hand corner of the zones there... Is this little green flag?

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the number that is on that green flag is indicating the reading order of the document.

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If you were to export the file as it sits right now...

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Now the default setting for Equidox is just to apply a left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order for every page.

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So this can be adjusted when needed of course, uh because not all PDFs, or not

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all documents, are set up in a top-to-bottom left-to-right reading order.

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Many times you have strange reading orders that need to be manually adjusted.

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Uh, you might have you know

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something that is read in a serpentine fashion or something. That is like a

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circular graphic in the middle where it has a very unique reading order.

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These things can all be adjusted.

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But when you're dealing with a page such as this where you have just standard top down left-to-right reading order.

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You'll see that Equidox automatically assigns a very solid reading order for you that you don't need to adjust in this instance.

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So

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the logic of this is, Equidox is literally scanning pixel by pixel throughout the page.

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And every time it touches a new zone that has not yet been put in the reading order,

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it will put that next in the sequence. So that's how it's searching for zones and how it's applying that reading order

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So this is a very simple page and the default setting of just left-to-right top-to-bottom.

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Uh, it does not need to be adjusted. So everything here is perfect.

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We have our heading level 1 our heading level 2 and a bunch of data that corresponds with each. It's a perfect reading order.

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Uh, we don't need to adjust anything further.

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Now if we go over here to the next page...

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What we have is again a pretty standard layout, but this time we have two columns. So this is a two column document.

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Which you can see that uh, you know,

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this is going to give us reading order issues. If we were to leave this just as is...

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so again Equidox just by default assumes that it's a left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order.

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So this zone here in the upper left starts with reading zone one, which is good.

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But then we jump over here to reading zone two...

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And then down here is reading zone three...

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Over here is reading zone four...

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You can see that this is, uh...

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this is not the, not really the appropriate reading order for a layout like this. We need to set this

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in a more accurate way so that it will actually read the left column first and then move over to the second column.

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So this is a perfect example of when setting the appropriate reading order is very important.

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Otherwise, you're going to be reading all of these paragraphs completely out of order.

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And although that this is just lorem ipsum... Just dummy Latin text...

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you can see that...

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you know, if this were actually important data, reading this completely out of order would be extremely difficult to comprehend.

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So to fix this all we have to do is go to the Page Tab...

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over here in the upper left hand corner...

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and the Page Tab

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has a feature in here for reading order. It's right below the Zone

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Detector. So if you want to hit this drop-down menu.

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You can see that the default is just that top-down, left-to-right reading order.

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But you can also set this as two columns.

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In this case, I will... i'll set this as two columns and I'll just press the Reorder button.

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And from here, you'll see that I now have reading zone 1, reading zone 2, reading zone 3.

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So we've gone right down the columns i'm reading this in the exact reading order that I would like to see.

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So that is a way of setting your reading order very quickly using the reorder function.

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Assuming that you have, you know a page like this where it is a nice two column layout. Um,

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and you don't have any sort of abnormal objects that are getting in the way of the reading order that you would like to,

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you know, put at the very end or put at the very beginning... you can still make adjustments to individual zones, uh,

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but in this case, we have pretty nice, uh structure here.

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So we're able to just programmatically do it with the Reading Order function pressing the Reorder button. Uh, so very straightforward.

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And it's the same thing for three columns as well. So, uh not to be too redundant here...

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But um, this is another situation where we have this left column starts with reading zone 1.

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Then we jump over to the middle column for reading zone 2.

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And then we go over here for reading zone 3 in the furthest right column.

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So everything here is also out of order. Uh, this is not going to be read in a way that makes any sense.

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So we will just choose three columns from the drop-down menu instead of the two so we'll choose a three-column layout.

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And just press the Reorder button.

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So now we have reading zone 1 on the left column.

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Following straight down the left column and then over to the middle and then to the right.

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So it just really depends on the layout of the page.

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You'll find sort of the appropriate setting I would say that 90%

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of the time that left to right top-to-bottom reading order is going to work pretty well for you.

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But there are of course exceptions to that, and so you have this ability

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to choose your layout and set the reading order as you see fit.

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And then if any adjustments need to be made from there.

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You certainly can do that by selecting the individual zone and changing the order in the order field.

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Which we'll get to here and just right about now.

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So I'm going to jump into a different document where we can talk about this, maybe

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with a little bit...

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getting into a little bit more detail.

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So I wanted to choose a document like this that has somewhat of an abnormal reading order.

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What we have here is

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a three-column brochure.

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So I see these from time to time and

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what you'll find with these is...

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this is intended to be folded up. So the reading order might not actually

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make sense from a left-to-right, top-to-bottom, or even a three-column layout, because Equidox is designed to read

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the left column first, the middle column second, and then the furthest right column third.

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But in this case, the actual cover page is over here on the far right-hand side.

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Um, so just keeping consistent. We'll set some heading structure here. So it makes a little bit easier to look at it.

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So I'm going to set this as my heading level 1.

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I'll set these as heading level 2s, and then I will set these subheadings as heading level 3s.

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So I'm just quickly tapping my keyboard again to set my headings.

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Um, and then let's take a look at the preview of this page just as it currently

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sits. You can see that

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everything looks a little bit skewed. We don't really have what we're looking for here.

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We have some kind of crazy layouts going on, because this right here is reading zone 3. Our heading level 1,

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which is actually the cover page is our reading zone 3.

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We have everything is a little bit out of order. So

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one way we can combat

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this is, you don't want to go through and have to reorder every individual zone through the order field.

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You are free to do that if you'd like.

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So the order field which indicates the reading order for that specific zone...

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You can adjust this if needed individually for the individual zones. You can change every single zone if you would like.

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But in this case, we actually have another trick up our sleeve.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a different zone type called "div."

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If I draw a zone and it doesn't have to cover the entire zone all it has to do is touch

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a series of zones.

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And if I just draw a zone like that, and it can be very thin and small.

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It doesn't need to cover everything. Like I said if I change that zone type to "div"

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When I change it to "div" I now can choose a master number...

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So the order number... if I... this

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is my cover page over here if I want this to be the first thing that's read on this page...

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Despite the fact that everything is kind of backwards.

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I can choose 1 as my master number.

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So I'll choose one for that master number... and then I'll press "Reorder this div."

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So what Equidox does, is it uses the decimal system

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to reorder the zones that that div zone was touching. So now I can indicate that I want this to be read first.

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And this zone down here to be read second so on and so forth.

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So I will copy that same move for over here on the furthest left column.

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So if I just draw another zone that's very, you know, it doesn't have to cover everything. It just has to touch.

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And if I change that to a "div zone."

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And now I can choose my master number as 2.

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And I press "Reorder this div" and you'll see in the upper right-hand corner. I zoom in a bit.

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The zones are now labeled with

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"2.002."

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"2.003" so on and so forth

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It's going to reorder things using the decimal system without having to individually set the reading order for every single one of these zones.

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It's basically a multi-select, uh for multiple zones and you can reorder them in that top to bottom left to right,

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uh, reading order so that can be very helpful when dealing with situations like this. Or, if you

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don't have a logical reading order to them...

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So the same thing can be done here as well.

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So I will draw another zone right down the middle of this column.

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And I just need to make sure it touches that very bottom one.

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And I will mark that as a "div" zone again, and I will choose my master number as 3 and I'll press "Reorder."

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So now my middle column here is actually going to be read last. So I've kind of like undone, uh,

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what I had before, and I've reset it with my furthest right column being read first... over here is being read second... and third...

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When I look at my preview, I should see a reading order that pretty much reflects what I have on the PDF page.

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What I would expect to read it like.

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Um, so that's uh one good use of the "div" tool.

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And um, another thing that you have like the ability to do, uh, is

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to use that decimal system. As I said before, so, there are certain instances where it makes sense to...

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if you have something that you would like to be read first, for example,

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in the document. Let's say we wanted to include this logo, for example,

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that wasn't actually marked before. If we wanted to include this we can mark it as a graphic.

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Just for in the interest of time. I'll just mark it logo.

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But what we can do is, I can then choose the exact location that I would like this to appear in the reading order,

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by using the decimal system. So let's say I wanted it to be read after my heading level 1.

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Which I can do um, or even if I wanted it read before my heading level one...

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So I just have to look at what my actual heading level one is currently set at...

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It's marked at point or 1.001. Um, so I could just in...

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for example, say I could mark this as a zone "0.1".

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So that it will be of course before

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the actual

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heading level one that I had before, without having to adjust or move any other zones around. So you don't have to play

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Like musical chairs with your reading order. You can set it

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exactly where you would like it to be read in the reading order.

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So using the decimal system is a perfectly valid

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way of making those

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single adjustments to a zone without having to disrupt the reading order that you have for the rest of the page.

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Because oftentimes there will be like one little graphic or one little thing that's floating in the middle of the page...

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that disrupts the logical flow of the reading order, but you would like to place it somewhere

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specific. So you can do that using the decimal system, whether it be following a zone, coming before a zone whatever it may be.

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Okay, so I want to take a look at one other document.

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kind of combining the...

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combining the two with heading structure

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and reading order.

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where

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we have

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again, kind of an illogical reading order. We have a bunch of text here. We have some headings over here.

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We have more information as well.

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So as it's currently set, we have a top-to-bottom, left-to-right reading order.

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So our image at the very top...

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this is our reading zone 1. If we wanted to artifact that, we could but setting our heading structure.

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We'll mark that as a heading level 1, a heading level 2 for the introduction section heading level 2 there as well.

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And um, everything else looks pretty good. I'll actually mark this as a heading level 2 as well.

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Um, so uh, we have this pretty standard three-column layout.

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Which is good. Uh, I guess we can work with this.

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So we will go to the Page Tab as we did before.  I'll choose "3 columns" for my reading order.

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And I will press "Reorder."

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So this will give me

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again

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that simple left-to-right,

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top-to-bottom in the left column first... and then over into the second column and then moving over into the third column.

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But since we have sort of a strange design, we do have to make some adjustments still.

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So let's take a look at our preview and see if we have any issues.

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one thing I'm noticing is our heading for our images is out of place. I believe this is it right here actually.

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We can fix this again by using that decimal system trick as I as I said before.

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And another thing you'll notice is down at the bottom in the footer

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you have like the sort of page information perhaps you want this to come at the very end.

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Well, I can see that zone 32 is the last reading zone on the page. So let me just make this zone 33...

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and then

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over here... I want to make sure that these are going to be read

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after...

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I should say after this heading level which is currently marked as reading zone 17, which we don't want.

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We don't want that to be reading zone 17. We want that to be read right before this image, which is reading zone 11.

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So I'll change 17

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10.5.

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Because 10.5 of course comes before 11 and it comes after 10. So when I look at the preview what I should see

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(I have a font issue here...)

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Okay, so I'm going to type in some information because that sideways font is coming up strange...

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So here I'm able to actually turn it into text by using the custom zone source...

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a topic for another webinar... but, uh

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you can see that I'm able to inject that heading right where it needs to go without having to readjust

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everything that would have been falling behind it.

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So that's that's about what I wanted to cover in terms of

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heading structure and reading order.

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We're right up against 2:30 now, so I don't know if... Tammy were there any questions that we can touch on before we adjourn?

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Tammy: There is one more question I am attempting to answer in text...

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If anyone is interested in the upcoming webinars, we will of course be sending out our regular invitations...

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But we now have a page on our website

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for webinars, um, and that will have the recordings

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um

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upcoming webinars on that page. So if you go to our website at www.equidox.com

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You can find all of our upcoming webinar topics and registration links there.

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Dan:Great

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All right, well it is 2:30, so I do appreciate everyone for...

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for taking the time to join us today. We do have another one coming up in October.

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So please join us for that one as well.

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I'm not sure if I know that the topic offhand, but I'm sure it'll be another uh

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exciting edition of Equidox Webinar Wednesdays. As I said before, please feel free to reach out to us at any time

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either through our email which is EquidoxSales@onixnet.com.

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Or our website www.equidox.co.

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Or our number at 800-664-9638.

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Thank you everyone and have a great rest of your day!

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