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Re: Headings: requirements vs best practices

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From: Marc Solomon
Date: Jun 22, 2016 6:49AM

In my opinion, placing the contents of the first <h1> before the owner/publisher information in the page title would be preferred from a usability perspective. Doing so would allow a screen reader user to identify the purpose of the page more quickly. Hope this is an option for your project.
Best,
Marc

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 3:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Headings: requirements vs best practices

As anything that can be done automatically will usually be more consistent and less error prone: would it be considered to automatically build the content of a web page's <title> tag by using something that identifies the owner/publisher of the website, followed by the contents of the first <h1> (assuming it reflects the intended on page title of the web page)?

Also: when you say "AT will still announce them", how would that apply to AT other then screen readers?

Olaf


> On 22.06.2016, at 01:19, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> On 22/06/2016 00:04, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
>> Right, and the <title> tag goes in the head.
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>> But how does the <title> title relate to the <h1> title, if at all? Which roles does <title> play? Does WCAG or anything else mandate anything about it? The <title> tag used to show up in the document window title, but these days document window titles are often gone (definitely on mobile devices, and in tabbed window browsers they have become pretty useless once several tabs are there).
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> But AT will still announce them when, say, switching between tabs. For this reason (as well as those mentioned by John Foliot) I'd say it's still relevant, in light of 2.4.2 Page titled.
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> Ideally, <title> and <h1> should be complementary/reinforce each other. <title> would often include more information (e.g. the actual section of the site you're in, as well as the actual site name), so it's not really a case of both having to have exact same content - just (as a best practice) that they shouldn't contradict each other, I'd say...
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