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Review a document's structure for accessibility

Start with inspectable structural issues such as heading order, meaningful link text and table headers.

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Review a document's structure for accessibility

Start with inspectable structural issues such as heading order, meaningful link text and table headers. Treat the output as a review list rather than a certification.

Prepare the source material

Choose a document role and attach only the approved source material. Specify the audience, desired sections and output format before starting. A local task needs compatible document tooling; the sandbox includes document-generation libraries. Open the original DOCX in a document application to inspect page breaks, tables and headings, because an extracted text preview cannot establish layout quality.

Inputs for this workflow: A DOCX draft and the intended reading audience.

Work through the task

  1. Inspect heading hierarchy and navigation.
  2. List images and tables needing human review.

A brief you can adapt

Write accessibility-review.md with location, issue, suggested fix and verification needed. Avoid claiming compliance based only on text extraction.

The filenames above are examples. Replace them with your actual inputs and destination before submitting the task.

Review the deliverable

Open the original document and review reading order, image descriptions and tables with suitable accessibility tools.

Where this approach can fail

An extracted text preview cannot validate every accessibility requirement or assistive-technology behavior.

For the related desktop setup, see review results.

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