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<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>Using standard text formatting conventions for paragraphs</title><linkrel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/sources.css" class="remove"></head><body><h1>Using standard text formatting conventions for paragraphs</h1><sectionclass="meta"><pclass="id">ID: T1</p><pclass="technology">Technology: text</p><pclass="type">Type: Technique</p></section><sectionid="applicability"><h2>When to Use</h2>
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<p>Plain text documents. Not applicable to technologies that contain markup.</p>
<p>The objective of this technique is to recognize a paragraph in a plain text document. A paragraph is a coherent block of text, such as a group of related sentences that develop a single topic or a coherent part of a larger topic. </p>
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<p>The beginning of a paragraph is indicated by
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<li>the beginning of the content, that is, the paragraph is the first content in the document, or</li>
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<li>exactly one blank line preceding the paragraph text</li>
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<p>The end of a paragraph is indicated by
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<li>the end of the content, that is, the paragraph is the last content in the document, or</li>
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<li>one or more blank lines following the paragraph text</li>
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<p>A blank line contains zero or more non-printing characters, such as space or tab, followed by a new line.</p>
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</section><sectionid="examples"><h2>Examples</h2>
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<htmllang="en">
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<title>Using standard text formatting conventions for paragraphs</title>
<h1>Using standard text formatting conventions for paragraphs</h1>
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<sectionclass="meta">
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<pclass="id">ID: T1</p>
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<pclass="technology">Technology: text</p>
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<pclass="type">Type: Technique</p>
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</section>
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<h2>When to Use</h2>
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<p>Plain text documents. Not applicable to technologies that contain markup.</p>
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</section>
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<h2>Description</h2>
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<p>The objective of this technique is to recognize a paragraph in a plain text document. A paragraph is a coherent block of text, such as a group of related sentences that develop a single topic or a coherent part of a larger topic. </p>
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<p>The beginning of a paragraph is indicated by</p>
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<ul>
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<li>the beginning of the content, that is, the paragraph is the first content in the document, or</li>
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<li>exactly one blank line preceding the paragraph text</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The end of a paragraph is indicated by</p>
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<li>the end of the content, that is, the paragraph is the last content in the document, or</li>
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<p>A blank line contains zero or more non-printing characters, such as space or tab, followed by a new line.</p>
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<h2>Examples</h2>
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<p>Two paragraphs. Each starts and ends with a blank line.</p>
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This is the first sentence in this
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paragraph. Paragraphs may be long
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In this paragraph the first line is
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indented. Indented and non-indented
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sentences are allowed. White space within
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the paragraph lines is ignored in
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defining paragraphs. Only completely blank
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lines are significant.
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</section><sectionid="tests"><h2>Tests</h2>
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<sectionclass="procedure"><h3>Procedure</h3>
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<p>For each paragraph:
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<li>Check that the paragraph is preceded by exactly one blank line, or that the paragraph is the first content in the web page</li>
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<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>Using standard text formatting conventions for lists</title><linkrel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/sources.css" class="remove"></head><body><h1>Using standard text formatting conventions for lists</h1><sectionclass="meta"><pclass="id">ID: T2</p><pclass="technology">Technology: text</p><pclass="type">Type: Technique</p></section><sectionid="applicability"><h2>When to Use</h2>
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<p>Plain text documents. Not applicable to technologies that contain markup.</p>
<p>The objective of this technique is to use text formatting conventions to create simple lists of related items. Hierarchical lists or nested lists cannot be represented using this technique and should be represented using a different technology. </p>
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<p>A list is a sequence of list items. A list item is a paragraph that begins with a label. For unordered lists, asterisks, dashes, and bullet characters may be used as the label, but the same label characters must be used for all the items in a list. For ordered lists, the label may be alphabetic or numeric, and may be terminated by a period or a right parenthesis. The labels must be in ascending order, that is,
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<li>alphabetic labels must be in alphabetical order or in numeric order when interpreted as Roman numerals.</li>
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<h2>Description</h2>
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<p>The objective of this technique is to use text formatting conventions to create simple lists of related items. Hierarchical lists or nested lists cannot be represented using this technique and should be represented using a different technology. </p>
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<p>A list is a sequence of list items. A list item is a paragraph that begins with a label. For unordered lists, asterisks, dashes, and bullet characters may be used as the label, but the same label characters must be used for all the items in a list. For ordered lists, the label may be alphabetic or numeric, and may be terminated by a period or a right parenthesis. The labels must be in ascending order, that is,</p>
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<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>Using standard text formatting conventions for headings</title><linkrel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/sources.css" class="remove"></head><body><h1>Using standard text formatting conventions for headings</h1><sectionclass="meta"><pclass="id">ID: T3</p><pclass="technology">Technology: text</p><pclass="type">Type: Technique</p></section><sectionid="applicability"><h2>When to Use</h2>
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<p>Plain text documents. Not applicable to technologies that contain markup.</p>
<p>The objective of this technique is to use text formatting conventions to convey the structure of the content. Headings are used to locate and label sections of a text document, showing the organization of the document.</p>
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<p>The programmatic identification of the Heading is the two blank lines preceding it and one blank line succeeding it. Text documents are necessarily void of underlying structure and so structure must be indicated in the programmatic layout for screen readers. This programmatic layout will enable screen readers to voice blank lines twice before the text that will be considered as a heading. A screen magnifier user would decipher headings by visually identifying the space before it (or their technology may have Screen reader capabilities that can identify the spaces).</p>
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<p>The objective of this technique is to use text formatting conventions to convey the structure of the content. Headings are used to locate and label sections of a text document, showing the organization of the document.</p>
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<p>The programmatic identification of the Heading is the two blank lines preceding it and one blank line succeeding it. Text documents are necessarily void of underlying structure and so structure must be indicated in the programmatic layout for screen readers. This programmatic layout will enable screen readers to voice blank lines twice before the text that will be considered as a heading. A screen magnifier user would decipher headings by visually identifying the space before it (or their technology may have Screen reader capabilities that can identify the spaces).</p>
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