RE: More than one h1 tag

I'm in agreement with AWK - the specs do not forbid the use of multiple s. However, in practice it will make sense to only use one per page - this should describe the primary subject of the page - in the same way as a printed or Word-processed document would only have one top-level heading, normally the title of the document. For what it's worth: I use to describe the page (including primary / secondary navigation / main content area title); and as the paragraph or section headings. Headings, properly nested, helps provide context to speechreader users and allow them to quickly navigate around the page, jumping to different zones on the page, or jumping from one to the next , etc. Now just to make sure that none of this discussion relains relevant, we'll see a brand new structure in XHTML 2/ HTML 5 when the H element will assume the characteristics of H1 or other Hn element based on it's position in the hierarchy of the document. Kind regards Harry Mob: +44 7826 926 994 ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Original Message From: Andrew Kirkpatrick To: WAI Interest Group list Sent: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:48:36 -0800 Subject: RE: More than one h1 tag > I'd disagree with that statement - http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE- > WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/G141.html indicates that authors _should_ > follow the structure you indicate, but nothing that says that they > _must_. "Should" indicates that it is generally regarded as > important, but if you are evaluating a site for WCAG 2.0 there is > nothing in the recommendation that says that a page with three H1's > would fail, provided that the page structure corresponds to that. > > Thanks, > AWK > > Andrew Kirkpatrick > > Senior Product Manager, Accessibility > > Adobe Systems > > akirkpat@adobe.com > > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] > On Behalf Of Andy Laws Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 11:22 AM To: > WAI Interest Group list Subject: More than one h1 tag > > Dear All > in the event of a page having more than 1 h1 tag can i confirm that > this breaks guidling 1.3.1 of WCAG 2.0 as this not a meaningful sequence > > Reagrds > Andy > > -- > Andrew Laws Bsc(Hons) MBCS, FBCS > Web-Sites: > www.opelnet.co.uk > www.cubiks.com > www.holidayhypermarket.co.uk > e-mail: adlaws@gmail.com > Telephone:: +44 (0) 7828822987 End of Original Message