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Re: how screen readers navigate by headline

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From: Will Grignon
Date: Sep 1, 2011 4:54PM

This sounds correct.

As a result, I tend to just use "h" to skip through headings.

While nesting headings is a plus, since it can give a user an idea of the
relative importance of headings and hence sections, the most important thing
for page-navigation is to format section titles or key links with
heading-levels and label these headings with clear and descriptive labels,
so a JAWS-user can easily run through a web-page by skipping from heading to
heading and get a good idea about what is on the page, how it is laid out,
and where the part to which he wants to go is located.