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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Mar 10, 2014 2:16PM

Well, considering the cats already out of the bag ... If the relevant content in a section deserves an H1, as per the current specification (spec), how would this be a problem for a user?

All I've heard is that it's not correct. OK, fine ... but why is it not correct? And I'm not talking about a missing "outlining algorithm " or a unknown bug ... I'm talking about a user with current technology.

What difficulties, if any, would they have navigating a page? Is there anyone on this list, who is a user of AT , that can give me first hand knowledge?

I try to create pages that work for all users, and that includes users who are accessing my pages via AT. If doing something by a current spec causes problems for the majority of the users, I'm not going to follow that spec. Conversely, if a spec is deemed by some as incorrect, but works ... I'm going to use it.

Just trying to do what's right for my end users.

Greg