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Re: Links as headings

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Sep 18, 2014 7:40AM

Perhaps the markup should be:
<h4>Group-1 name</h4>
Followed by list of links in ul/li
then
<h4>Group-2 name</h4>
Followed by list of links in ul/li
and so forth.

I do come across links marked up as headings like the h5 ones in your
example sometimes and there is associated functionality like the links
really expand / collapse and the expanded content is displayed below
the link. When expanded the h5 does work like a section heading but
the problem is that the expand/collapse state is not conveyed merely
by the h5. So that's not correct markup.
Best wishes,
Sailesh







On 9/17/14, Weissenberger, Todd M < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Some of our partners are using heading levels on certain groups of links.
> It might look like:
>
> <h4>Links</h4>
> <h5><a href="">Link</h5>
> <h5><a href="">Link</h5>
> <h5><a href="">Link</h5>
> <h5><a href="">Link</h5>
>
> Any comment on this practice?
>
> T.M. Weissenberger
> Web Accessibility Coordinator
> University of Iowa
> <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> 319-384-3323
>
> > > >