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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: May 3, 2011 12:42PM

No technical standard in current Section 508 requires use of headings, nor does it specify incremental consistent usage in any way. In addition, you might be able to clearly demonstrate a functional performance failure under specific circumstances regarding randomized heading usage, but in my view this would be limited to a specific situation and would involve extreme time impact on some users with disabilities. Equivalent facilitation allows for multiple ways to meet a technical standard, e.g. if tables are required to have headings, and you implement the whole thing in .css and such is navigable and understandable in the same fashion as mark-up would be, equivalent facilitation would be successful. The WCAG 2 format of the current 508 skip-nav is more broad, and requires ability to bypass blocks of text, which at the end of the day really does require, at least in one method, use of headings, and for sanity's sake consistently applied usage.


Allen Hoffman