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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Sep 8, 2002 2:47PM

Tom,

I don't think a recurring Logo would qualify as a heading, regardless on
where it's located. So, to my thinking, your option (2) is the way to go.

Logos help brand a page, but generally they do not contribute to the logical
structure of the document beyond the branding exercise. A Heading groups
the subsequent content (paragraphs) into a logical unit, thus your page
could conceivably have three or four <h2>'s if that's the logical division
of data (and conceivably 2 or more <h1>s if truely appropriate - although I
can't think of an example off hand). I know that JAWs allows users to
"extract" headings into a "list" which they can then use to navigate though
any given page; in that case why would they want to "visit" the logo?

Anyway, just my $0.02

JF

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