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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Aug 28, 2013 1:28PM

Hello:
I agree with all you said. What is happening here is that the page is
starting with a h3 for the nav and then a h1 and then an h4 never hitting a
h2 anyway. Then if you dig in to the site it changes the h3 for the nav to
an h2 and we want to have it be consistent if it is wrong at least thanks

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces


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Lucy,

Unfortunately as far as headings go, under WCAG 2, any skipped levels will
generate at best a warning from any tool. The reason? Under WCAG 2 AA,
there are two ways to view headings.


1. The entire page can be organized top down as in an outline. If that is
the case, then the first element on the page is an H1, the next is an H1 or
H2. If its anb H2, the next element can be an H3 or an H2. And so on. No
levels skipped.
2. The elements of the page are labelled for their semantic importance.
So on a three column layout, the left and right columns are not the primary
content. The center column is. So, the center column gets and H1 and the top
of the two side columns end up with an H2. In the reading order, these will
appear H2, H1, H2 … thus skipping a level at the top. If the left column has
additional heading labels relative to starting H2 at the top of the column,
it could be that the last element in the column is an H3 (or H4 or …). Which
would make the reading order H2, H3, H1, H2

In fact, even in scenario 1, you could end up with a skip in heading order.
Beneath the starting H1 I have an H2 that contains an h3 with sub H4's. The
next H2 then would skip a level .. H1, H2, H3, H4, H4, H3, H4, H4, H2

Realistically, Web pages aren't laid out like outlines. HTML 5 tries to
account for that by adding additional tags like article, section and aside.
Each of these can contain its own heading arrangement. So, its not clear
that that helps or not. Plus, AT browsers don't well support some of these
newer tags.

We struggle with this in our Web CMS as well. If folks have flexibility to
create content, then they can mislabel headings. It is not clear that
headings can be "fixed" automatically (we're looking at that). And given the
two mod3els the WCAG allows for the use of headings, we thing number 2 makes
more sense.
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Subject: [WebAIM] controlling a CMS for access

Hello:
We are trying to launch a large scale adoption of a cms. And are finding
most of it to be very accessible. however the semantic structure it creates
is not really that grate and inconsistent So I can go to a page and the page
starts with h3 and then the main content is h1 and then sub headers are h4.
Then on subpages the h3 becomes an h2. We are basing our templates on Drupal
7 using the Panopoly distribution and the panels module. Does anyone have
any ideas how we can help our users create more consistent structure and how
we deal with the skipped levels in the headings. I would like to play hard
ball on this and say that we should not allow out of order headers but the
rest of what I have seen works to well to not give in a little smile Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces
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