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Re: Max amount of h1 tags

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Feb 12, 2012 1:42AM

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Just curious why you want to put the logo of a company in an h1 heading.

Makes sense for the name of the company to be the main heading on its homepage.

> Besides, as I pointed out in an earlier post, not all web pages will
> be built around a single main focus or article. There are plenty of
> sites that present different types of information with, perhaps,
> several equally important page sections.
> Say I logged in to my online bank, do I want to look at my accounts,
> my credit cards, my online bills, my reward points. (well, frankly the
> accounts and bills sections I generally want to skip over *grin*). It
> seems to be somewhat arbitrary if someone decided one of these was the
> "main" section on the page.

Yes, but it would be reasonable to have an overarching heading for all of them.

> I believe there is an argument for making all of these an h1
> heading,or create an h1 heading above the first one,and making all of
> them h2 headings. I think either has merits, though I prefer the first
> one, as it allows me to quickly cycle through the page, rather than
> first having to locate the h1 heading and then use the h2 headings to
> get to my section (admittedly not a big difference).

Your AT doesn't let you skip directly to the first h2? In both JAWS
and NVDA you should be able to press "h" to jump between headings
irrespective of level, or press "2" to jump between h2 elements only.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis