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Re: which guideline to empty headers go against?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 27, 2016 6:25AM

In my experience most screen readers ignore empty headings (do not
include them in their list of headings or enable navigation to them).
I am not sure if the same applies to headings with white space inside
them.
I agree on 1.3.1 and 2.4.6 being the most likely success criteria.
It is usually not a serious issue for the user, and I believe it is
fine to lower the accessibility testing tool severity to a warning
from an error.


On 11/22/16, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Yes, I'd agree it certainly fails 1.3.1 (this is where I normally flag
>> empty headings in audits).
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> I'd generally agree with this as well.
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> Jonathan
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