NVDA: Headings
What is a heading?
Did you hear the words Heading Level as you started navigating this page? Headings tell us what the paragraph after them is going to be about. They can be very useful when you want an overview of what is on a page or in a document. They can also help you jump to the right section of a page when you know what you are interested in.
Heading levels
Heading levels give a hierarchy to the headings. Heading level 1 is usually the title of the page. Heading level 2 is the next most important headings and break the page down into sections. Heading level 3 is the next level and so on.
Navigating by headings
You can navigate using headings by pressing the h key. What is the heading level of the next heading. Press h now to find out.
What is this heading level?
Did you hear what the heading level was? In case you missed it, it was Heading level 3. Next, you’re going to keep pressing h until you get to a Heading level 4. Try and remember what it is.
Here are some more headings
Did you forget to press the letter h to navigate only by headings?
Headings can be helpful for navigation
They can also be a summary
Of the info on a page
Did you hear what the Heading level 4 was? You can go back and check by pressing shift + h.
If you said it was: of the info on a page, then you’re right!
So, what have you learnt so far? Hopefully that headings help you to navigate a page and give you are summary of what the page is about. You can navigate by headings using the letter h, and shift + h lets you go back to the previous heading in case you missed something.
Now, the last thing you need to do is listen out for a heading level 4 coming up. You need to find a link at the end of the page which has the same words as heading level 4. When you get to the end of the headings you can press down arrow to find the right link. Press h to listen for the headings now.