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When I select a page to work on in Equidox, the first thing I notice is the large yellow reading
zone that is covering all of the content on the page. To help the remediator better understand
the structure that they are building, we have a Preview button that opens in a separate tab
an HTML rendering of the page that you are currently working on.
When I open the Preview for this page I can see that all of the content including the text
headings and the list are grouped together as a single paragraph which is unacceptable. If I
return to the Document Editor I will navigate to the Page Tab on the left-hand side on the
Page Tab is one of the most important features in Equidox. And this is the Zone Detection Slider.
If I move this slider back and forth, I am indicating that I do not want to rely on
the existing tag structure and I would prefer Equidox to redetect the structure of the page
automatically. This will reset my reading zones with a layout that is much more consistent with
the design of the page. And if I return to the HTML Preview, I will see that I now have
individual paragraphs instead of the single large cluster that I previously had.
We have three columns here. The reading order is indicated on Equidox in the upper right-hand
corner of the zone. There's a little green flag that has a number in it. And so every one of these
numbers corresponds to the reading order of the page. To very quickly handle this type of issue,
what I can do is I can just go to my Page Tab. I can set the reading order. If I want to change my
reading order (the default is just left-to-right top-to-bottom, as most pages will be) but here, we
have definitely a unique layout where we have this three-column setup. So I can choose three columns
for my reading order and press the Reorder button. And after doing that, now I have zone four, and I
have zone five down here, up here is six, seven, and eight, nine, and ten. So I’m now reading
in the left-hand column, then down the middle column, and then over to the right-hand column,
exactly as it should be read. Then when we take a look at the Preview, we're going to see a nice
clean structure here, where we have the proper reading order and we have our heading level 2 set.
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