In the Blackboard content editor, use the text style menu to apply the built-in styles in order. Blackboard labels these styles Title, Header, Subheader, and Paragraph rather than “Heading 2” or “Heading 3,” but they do the same job: they create real structure rather than text that is merely big and bold. Use Title once for the page, then Header and Subheader in order beneath it. Headings let students and assistive technology skim and jump through a page.

For links, the visible text should describe the destination, for example “the APA reference guide,” not “click here” or a raw web address. People using screen readers often pull up a list of links with no surrounding context, so the text has to stand on its own.