Role Mapping

To get the best result in terms of accessibility each element of the Word document must have the correct role mapping.

All paragraph styles provided from Word are mapped to a specific role as default. In nearly all cases this default role is fitting. If necessary, you can change the role in the axesWord Document Settings.

There is also a default role mapping for paragraphs/elements created with Word functions. This is the case for captions, footnotes, table of contents, links, references or hyphenation.

For all elements like figures, tables, text boxes or headers/footers a role is already assigned as default. axesWord recognizes automatically the natural semantics of the elements and assigns the corresponding role. However, in case of figures, tables, text boxes or headers/footers the role is adjustable. Their default roles need only to be changed if the natural semantics is not appropriate. This may be the case for Layout-Tables, Definition Lists, Artifacts or Formulas. There is a context-sensitive task pane axesWord - Rolemapping to adjust the role mapping:

In general the role Default is appropriate. An element owns then the role that corresponds to its natural semantics.