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From: Swift, Daniel P.
Date: Aug 3, 2016 9:05AM

I was looking at the 5 spec, not the 5.1:
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements

Ouch -- my mistake.
-Dan

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steve Faulkner
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Header levels

On 3 August 2016 at 15:55, Swift, Daniel P. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> You're mistaken -- H1 can appear multiple times on a page provided
> that you are using the html5 doctype and you are using sectioning
> content (article, aside, nav, section).


Unfortunately this is not the case:

This may be helpful:
http://html5doctor.com/computer-says-no-to-html5-document-outline/

along with advice in the HTML spec:

https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/sections.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements



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