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At a Glance
Using built-in style buttons ensures documents are structurally sound, allowing assistive technologies like screen readers to accurately interpret and navigate the content. Implementing these styles also creates a consistent and predictable format, making it easier for all users to understand the document’s organization.
Formatting Lists
Lists should be formatted using the appropriate styles in Canvas. This means that lists should be created using the bulleted list function often depicted as a button that looks like this: 
. When this button is used, it will create a list that looks uniform and is accessible for all students:
- Example One
- Example Two
And not this:
* Example One
* Example Two
By using appropriate styles, screen readers and other text-to-speech software can identify that something is a list and announce it to the listener, so they know that the next group of items is connected. Canvas and word processing programs all provide numerous options for formatting, so whether you want bullet points, Roman numerals, or letters, you can set up your list however you want.
To see a demo of how to use list styles in Canvas and how Pope Tech will correct list errors, visit the Digital Accessibility page on this core skill!