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From: Jorge Fernandes
Date: Jan 4, 2010 12:06PM

Hi,

According to WCAG2.0 seems me that Geoff is right: hierarchy headings
are to apply in main content of the page and not to navigation titles
that surround it.

But semantically, what is a navigation title?

In a navigation scheme my thought is that we are semantically in
presence of a definition term, where "main navigation" is the <dt>
(definition term) and the options are the <dd> (definition data). So,
something like:

<dl>
<dt>Main menu</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>option 1</li>
<li>option n</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>

In that way the user agent always "know" that are in "option n" of
"main menu". This kind of semantic structure give context to the user
agent.

What do you think about this construct?

Regards,
Jorge Fernandes

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UniversalAccess.blogspot.com


On 21 Dec 2009, at 21:06, Geof Collis 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>
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>>