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Why is WCAG 2.0 criterian 2.4.6. only leve AA?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 20, 2012 9:26PM

Hi

I was doing a review of the WCAG, because I am commenting on an
Icelandic adoption and description of the standard. And I came across
something I did not notice before.
SC criterian 2.4.6 (use descriptive headings and lables) is only level
AA, not level A.
Out of curious, does anyone know why this is?
It seems a lot more fundamental to accessibility than a lot of the
level A criteria I have come across, and it seems a bit out of
character with the rest of the guidelines.
Anyone got a historical or technical perspective on why this happened?
Thanks
-B