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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Mar 10, 2014 6:53PM

Chagnon | PubCom wrote:

> But we could develop a happy medium between the ridiculously skimpy tag set
> we now have for accessibility, and the anal-retentive nonsense of SGML and
> some XML.
>
> WebAIM is one group that could address this and get the problem fixed for
> everyone. That would be a wonderful accomplishment for this group, wouldn't
> it?

As wonderful as it would be, we're not really the right group to
address things like this - at least not alone. Work in the W3C (and a
few other groups) on HTML5+ (despite the several arguments in this
thread against some of its 'features') and other specifications is
where web standards should be defined and improved.

Screen readers already understand a fairly robust language for
accessibility, but HTML has a very limited accessibility vocabulary
for communicating with them. There is great work going on with ARIA
and with HTML5 to extend the available vocabulary to better match
those defined in accessibility APIs, and in extending those APIs so we
can communicate accessibility in more robust ways.

Jared