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Re: Logo as an h1??

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Mar 2, 2017 8:49AM

Diane -

I would stick with your current practice of one <h1> as the main
document title for all of the well-articulated reasons you provided.
This provides very easy access to the main content area and the
heading that describes what the content of that page is.

The recommendation to make the logo an <h1> often comes from a common
yet incorrect assumption that an <h1> must be the first heading in a
document, which is sometimes reinforced by automated tools that flag
this as an "error".

Jared