In this lesson you
- Read the flow line a screen reader follows
- Redrew the order with Draw order
- Confirmed every flagged page, and Proof recorded the attestation
Transcript
What attesting means
Attesting reading order. How do you know a page reads in the right order? A machine can compare the tags with the layout, but only a person can judge what order makes sense. So Proof asks you to confirm it. Before your first confirmation, it explains what confirming means. When you attest a check, you are stating, for your organization, that you looked at it, and that the document meets it. Proof records that against your name and this exact version of the file. If you're unsure, leave the check open. Choose Accept to go on.
Reading the flow line
Screen readers don't see the layout of a page. They follow the document's tags, one after another. On the page, each numbered box is one tagged block, and its number is its place in that order. The line that joins them is the flow line. It's the path a screen reader takes. Proof compares that path with the page's layout. Where the two might disagree, it flags the page for a person, and the label above the page says so. Where Proof suspects a jump, that part of the line is drawn in orange. That's usually where the order is wrong, so start there.
Spotting the wrong order
On this newsletter, the line leaves the masthead and jumps to the right column first. The flu clinic box, then the schools article. Only after that does it come back for the main story on the left. Someone listening would hear this page out of order. To hear it the way a listener would, choose Listen panel. It can read the page aloud, in its current order.
Drawing the right order
To fix it, choose Draw order, and trace the page the way you would read it. The masthead, then down the left column. Then lift your pen, and carry on down the right. Proof numbers each block as you pass over it. Drawing is the quickest way, but not the only one. Use suggested order puts the columns in sequence for you. Treat it as a starting point, and check it. Reorder by clicking lets you number each box yourself, and it works from the keyboard.
Checking what a screen reader will announce
Before anything is saved, read the result. Choose Stage this page. Proof lists exactly what a screen reader will announce, block by block, so you can read it through once more.
Saving, then confirming
If it reads right, choose Stage this order. Then choose Save 1 page to write it into the document. Proof writes a new version of the file, and checks it again. A new order still needs a person to confirm it, because saving an order isn't the same as reading it. So read the page once more, and choose Mark order correct. Then Next to review takes you to the next flagged page.
A flagged page that is already right
Page two was flagged as well. Here, the line runs straight from top to bottom, exactly as the page reads. A flag means Proof's automatic check couldn't be sure. It isn't a verdict that the order is wrong. The judgment is yours. This one is right, so choose Mark order correct.
The attestation is recorded
With every flagged page confirmed, Proof records your attestation against this exact version of the file. If you need to take it back, Undo, remove attestation reopens the check. Now you can read a page's flow line, redraw an order that's wrong, and confirm the pages that are right.
Recap
That's the end of this lesson.
Maple Ridge Community Health, its documents and its people are fictional, made for these lessons.