Bullet and Numbered List

Bullet and Numbered List are discussed in this lesson.

There are lots of advantages of using bullets and numbered lists in our documents. Such as:

• It helps to present the short and clear points instead of long text in the documents.
• It helps to separate and specialize the important information in one section.
• We can list out some essential links in one place so that the users can easily access, if they want to have additional information.
• It Interrupts the flow of documents for a while to prevent users from getting tired or annoyed while reading complex paragraphs.

The numbered lists, on the other hand, make it easier for users to understand the methods/process step by step. It helps users to provide information on the process that needs to be done one after the other.

The documents with proper use of bullets and numbered lists are accessible for all types of users. The general users can reach out easily in any important section of the documents through those lists. Even the screen reader users can access these lists, read them properly and get information with the support of screen reader software. But the important thing is that these lists should have been developed in an accessible way.

We can use different features and options to make proper lists in our documents which are already available in the software. It is not accessible to make lists by pressing enter-enter and adding number or symbol as per our choice.

Bullets list can be used to provide relevant information while numbered lists can be used to provide information about a process or method or procedure to be presented in order, one after another. Similarly, there should be a gap between the lists which can also be added using the software features.  

You will practice in the following lessons how to build such lists in the software.

Summing Up

Bullets and numbered lists in our documents make our documents presentable, more meaningful, easily understandable and make us an easy access to the particular section of the documents. If such bullets and numbered lists are developed in an accessible way by using the different features and options of Microsoft word and Google docs, the screen reader users can access these lists, read them properly.