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Re: ARIA heading - hierarchy and screen readers

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Apr 8, 2015 2:13PM

On 8 April 2015 at 20:51, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> So what about wrapping it in a <section> tag which, as I understand it,
> will allow you to use a header outside of the linear order of headers.

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The HTML5 Recommendation is clear on use of headings in conjunction with
sections:

authors are strongly encouraged to use headings of the appropriate rank for
> the section's nesting level.


http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#outlines

nit: headings (h1-h6) are not ,'headers'. There is a <header> element which
does not equal a heading, a th (table header) element and a headers
attribute in HTML
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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;