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Re: page should contain no more than two h1 elements

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From: J. B-Vincent
Date: Jun 15, 2009 12:05PM

I agree with Andrew and Dean--and if you look at the results of the WebAIM survey, you'll see that more than 3/4 of screen users rely on heading markup to intuit information about page hierarchy. This reliance increases to 90% for proficient screen reader users.

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From: Simius Puer < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] page should contain no more than two h1 elements
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 10:52 AM


Yes, that's simple document hierarchy and there should never be more than 1
H1 on a page.  Is it supposed to be the title for that resource, just like
the title of a book or a movie....and you don't see books with 2 names!

The answer to the original question is quite simple...don't.  Set H1 for the
name of the resource, H2 for sub headings (or chapters), then H3 for
sub-headings/topics withing those....HTML does have 6 levels and that is
more than enough for most documents.

Not sure if I would trust testing software that allowed 2 H1s!