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Re: Max amount of h1 tags

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From: Steve Flaukner
Date: Feb 8, 2012 12:24PM

I should of typed FAE. Not WCAG! my error! Keep the pitchforks aside:)
On Feb 8, 2012 11:52 AM, "Rick Hill" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
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> "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
>