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From: Geof Collis
Date: Dec 21, 2009 3:00PM

Hi Margit

Thanks but I find people are going heading crazy. :O)

Thanks also for the style sheet, seems I spelled color with a "u" for
the content section, gonna have to go through other ones to see if I
made the same mistake.

cheers

Geof

At 04:31 PM 12/21/2009, you wrote:
>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>
> > >
> > >
> > >