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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Mar 10, 2014 3:41PM

Oh, well. Based on Duff's response, I guess the idea of "important"
for the h1 isn't viable/has been corrected in HTML5 (though I wold
argue that sometimes, it does make sense to frame the issue this way
in everyday discussions, outside of "theoryland").


But I stand by my general ideas; just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Jennifer



Duff wrote, in part:

<H1> is not about winning a popularity contest. It was defined as
"importance" in HTML 4, but that was a flat-out error (from the
accessibility point of view), one that's explicitly corrected in HTML 5.