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From: Geof Collis
Date: Dec 21, 2009 2:06PM

Hi Andrew

I think the argument here is that my navigation are supposed to be
headings, but I dont see it that way, navigation is navigation and
then there is content. I dont see a need to use headings as I have
said before, all I have is bold text to signify that it is a mainn
navigation and categories, if I chose not to put any text then there
would be no need to put headings at all.

cheers

Geof



At 03:59 PM 12/21/2009, you wrote:
>Geof,
>Maybe you already fixed it, but when I look at the code I see one
><h1> and two <h2> elements, and in my book those count as headings.
>
>Thanks,
>AWK
>
>Andrew Kirkpatrick
>
>Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>
>Adobe Systems
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Moore,Michael (DARS)
>Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:48 PM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Headings
>
>My own personal warped opinion is that if it visibly looks like a
>heading then it should be coded as a heading. Why would you want
>headings for sighted users that are not available for screen reader
>users? As far as the heading order goes, you can control that
>through the code order with CSS and/or make the main heading an h1
>and the other headings lower heading. If I want to get to the main
>heading using a screen reader I can just whack the key for that
>heading level - the "1" key in JAWS.
>
>Mike Moore
>(512) 424-4159
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Geof Collis
>Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:03 PM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Headings
>
>But I want the first heading to be the main content, I have skip
>links, they are marked up as lists and I use role landmarks, is that
>not enough?
>
>At 01:55 PM 12/21/2009, you wrote:
> > > They are, but is it an WCAG issue if they aren't coded as headings?
> >
> >Looking at the sufficient techniques for WCAG 2.0 4.1.2
> >(http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/ensure-compat-rsv.html),
> >I would think that they should be marked up as headings.
> >
> >Tim
> >