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Re: Max amount of h1 tags

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From: Rick Hill
Date: Feb 8, 2012 9:48AM

Not that I'm in disagreement with minimizing h1 on a page to minimize confusion … however, I don't see that WCAG specifies only 1 or two or any number of max H1's on a page. And of course, when using HTML5 (me, I'm still using XHTML), it is possible to have several sets of heading hierarchies using sections, although the current status of assistive browsers may not well support that.

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Rick

From: David Ashleydale < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >>
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:40:40 -0800
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Max amount of h1 tags

"What harm is there if you use more that 2 per page? Meaning what effects
does this have on end user technology?"

It might be confusing to users. If I were on a page and I had already heard
an H1 and came across another one, I might think that I had accidentally
gone to another page.

David