[NFBCS] Screen Readers and Mark Down Text Resume

[Louis Maher]

Hello Alan,

You should purchase the $20 Microsoft word plug-in called Writage.

https://www.writage.com/download

documentation
https://www.writage.com/docs-page/#:~:text=Copy%20Markdown%20code%20into%20the%20clipboard%20by%20selecting,your%20document%20with%20all%20the%20predefined%20styles%20applied."

If you copied your markdown text using control + c, then open an empty word file, go to the writage tab, find the paste markdown option and hit it.

The result would be a microsoft word without markdown attributes.  The word file would honor the now absent markdown attributes.

You can also go the other way and convert a word file into a markdown file.

Open a word file, go to the Writage tab and hit the copy markdown option.  Open a .txt file, and do a standard paste.  You would have your word file converted into a markdown file with the markdown attributes.

Enjoy.
Sometimes I create a markdown document in word to use the word spelling checker.  Then I convert the word markdown into normal text.





Regards
Louis Maher
Phone: 713-444-7838
E-mail: ljmaher03 at outlook.com

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Alan K. Martinez via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:56 PM
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Cc: alan.k.martinez.02 at gmail.com
Subject: [NFBCS] Screen Readers and Mark Down Text Resume

Hello everyone,

 

My Lighthouse job seekers counselor(s) suggested I re-format my resume to make it easier for people with vision disabilities who rely on screen readers to review.

My current resume is in a format that I've used for decades.  It was created in Word but was formatted more like a table or spreadsheet where sections were in spaces like spreadsheet cells.  This is how the Word template was formatted when I first used it.

I recently learned a little bit of Mark Down language and like the way it can format and print like HTML but is in more of a text file.  I was wondering if I send a mark down file of my resume to recruiters who use screen readers how well it would translate with all the formatting marks that might be in it.  Especially like ordered lists where the list is just preceded by 1 and a dot.  I'm sure this will go out to visually abled people to but they can see the formatted text instead of the encoded text.

I ask because I still have some usable vision and do not have a screen reader except for the Voice Dream suite and I don't use it a lot yet.  I guess I can test it there.

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