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From: Margit Link-Rodrigue
Date: Dec 21, 2009 2:33PM

Geof,

I would make Main Menu, Categories, and Search this Site <h2> headings and
apply a style class so that you can keep the look you have. This would still
allow you to keep your heading 1 where you have it now - to mark up the
start of your main content. I think this is in line with WCAG 2
recommendation, take a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H42.html. I
like to have as much structural markup as possible, I think of headings a
little bit like the outline for a table of contents just like in a Word
document.

On another note, the Default Colors link in your Main Menu goes to a page
that doesn't load the stylesheet correctly. It loads as all white text on
white background for me, not sure if you are aware of that.

Margit


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Geof Collis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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>
> >
> >
> >