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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Mar 10, 2014 3:47PM

Jared ... your long response is much more appreciated then any short one would have been ;-)

But you mentioned h1 as the biggest and boldest. I can do the same with a span tag, but I get what you're saying ... I just don't see site structure/markup and site presentation as the same thing.

As for my being such a pain for you and Steve:

http://goo.gl/hAIJOR

Google SEO and Multiple H1's:
http://youtu.be/GIn5qJKU8VM

and lastly, but first a quote:
I would in fact prefer, instead of <h1>, <h2> etc for headings [those come from the AAP DTD] to have a nestable <section>..</section> element, and a generic <h>..</h> which at any level within the sections would produce the required level of heading.
- Tim Berners-Lee

http://goo.gl/rQlJb


This is what makes me question the validity of the old school? view of headings, pertaining to HTML5. As for the one way in which users would be benefited ... read a properly formatted HTML5 blog. I did with NVDA, and it made sense to me. But I don't rely on AT, so what I think works means very little.

Greg