diff --git a/Tests/Regression/Reporter/read_docx.py b/Tests/Regression/Reporter/read_docx.py
index d2a452144..6585840e7 100644
--- a/Tests/Regression/Reporter/read_docx.py
+++ b/Tests/Regression/Reporter/read_docx.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def read_docx_file(docx_path: str, debug=False) -> dict:
     dict = {"Heading 1" = {"text" = ["line 1", "line 2", ...], "table" = [[row 1], [row 2], ...] }, ...}
     """
     doc = Document(docx_path)
-    doc_data = {}
+    doc_data: dict[str, dict[str, list]] = dict()
 
     current_heading_name = None