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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Jun 22, 2016 7:23AM

I completely agree.

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Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Twitter: http://twitter.com/CSrinivasu/
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Marc Solomon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> 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:
> >
> > On 22/06/2016 00:04, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
> >> Right, and the <title> tag goes in the head.
> >>
> >> 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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