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From: Bob Easton
Date: Feb 27, 2005 5:31PM

ecampbell wrote:
> In my view, every webpage should have 1 and only 1 H1 element,
> reserved for the title of that page.
> Section headings within a page should use H2, etc.
>
> Using headings consistently will help all readers, as they will be
> styled in the same way, and will help people using screen readers,
> because JAWS for example, can extract a list of all the headings in a page
> and read them out, including the heading level of each one.
....

Also pertinent to this discussion is Molly's new article about semantics:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=369225

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Bob Easton