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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: May 1, 2013 9:50AM

Hi sandy,
I suggest
"<h1> in the banner, once you are off the home page, is unnecessary
clutter, and should be reserved for the
page title." is the correct thinking.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;


On 1 May 2013 16:46, Sandy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>
> > seen the banner role guidelines here, where he suggests applying it to
> > the main header tag:
> > http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/02/using-wai-aria-landmarks-2013/
> Right - the question is whether an <h1> in the banner, once you are off
> the home page, is unnecessary clutter, and should be reserved for the
> page title. The banner role will tell users what's going on, right?
>
> > Also, I assume you're not just applying that one role, right?
> right. So far role="banner", role="navigation" and role="main".
>
> thanks for taking the time to answer,
> Sandy
> > > >