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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Mar 10, 2014 3:51PM


Jennifer ... Would you mind if I contacted you off list?


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 2:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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.