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Re: Heading order

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Sep 30, 2015 8:50AM

> On the other hand, if you are using e.g. h4 but presenting it visually as something more important that what is represented in h3, I think you're pretty clearly doing the wrong thing - not just for accessibility but HTML in general.

Which HTML is that? :-/

The definition of "Heading" in HTML 4.01 is notably different from the definition given in HTML 5.

Yet I see the notion of "importance' used interchangeably with "structure" all the time.

Perhaps, in the HTML world, it's a distinction without a difference? In which case, why change the definition?

Duff.