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Re: Why is WCAG 2.0 criterian 2.4.6. only leve AA?

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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Apr 23, 2012 12:22PM

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>For this reason, I don't understand why (or even how) 2.4.10 is broken
>out from 2.4.6.

1.3.1 Requires the use of headers if there are things in the "document"
that visually look like headers.

So 2.4.6 only comes into play when nothing in the "document" looks
visually like a heading.

Just learned this a few weeks ago at a WCAG 2.0 techniques group meeting.

So 1.3.1 has a lot of conditional requirements.

Also in relationship to 2.4.6 in general people are unlikely to put into a
document headings that are not meaningful these days.

Jon Gunderson


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