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Re: how screen readers navigate by headline

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From: LSnider
Date: Sep 2, 2011 2:21PM

I have wanted to ask this for a while, so this is the perfect time...In
terms of headings, let's say my page does this:

Title of Page (H1)
Category A (h2)
Sub Category A2 (h3)
Category B (h2)
Sub Category B2 (h3)

This makes sense in terms of how the page's content is shown, but on a
screen reader the H2s and H3s then get confused.

Is there a better way to do it?

Cheers

Lisa

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Will Grignon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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.
>
>