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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Oct 3, 2012 10:25AM


Rick,

I'm going to duck the question of what WCAG allows, but share instead what users have told me. There's almost universal agreement that it's best if the content order and the headings hierarchy match up, but that what matters most is that the headings hierarchy is correct. The order becomes more important for large, complex pages, with many levels of headings.

sb

Sarah E. Bourne
Director of Assistive Technology &
Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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