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Re: Logo as an h1??

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From: Lovely, Brian (CONT)
Date: Mar 2, 2017 8:54AM

If it's just the typical active image that is linked to the home page, and appears in the typical page header location, that is actually a terrible use of an h1 element, since every page (assuming they all had the same page header) would all be "about" the same topic: your logo.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Tomlins Diane
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 10:28 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Logo as an h1??

Hello everyone :) Headings/logo question - we've had an accessibility consultant tell us that the logo on our sites should be wrapped in an <h1>. That was a popular practice years ago, but we no longer use it, haven't for years.

If the H1 is supposed to be the primary topic of the page you're on, how is announcing the company name that's in the logo, as an h1, make any sense?? That's really not the topic of the page. We have H1's on the pages that are actually relevant to the subject of the page and having the logo as an h1 would mean there would be 2 H1s on the page - one that makes sense, and one that really doesn't. That doesn't' seem to aid accessibility, in my opinion.

I'm inclined to push back on this recommendation, and I think I can make the argument, but I thought I'd ask those more experienced in this forum.
Thanks!

Diane R Tomlins
HCA Healthcare
Accessibility SME

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