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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).
>
> I'd generally agree with this as well.
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> Jonathan
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> On 22/11/2016 09:40, Bim Egan wrote:
>> I'd say this is a definite fail of SC 2.4.6: Headings and labels
>> describe topic or purpose, [1]. No text content means no description.
>
> If the page is understandable without that empty heading (which I'd assume
> is the case, if these headings are accidentally created), then I'd say it's
> a pass here.
>
>> Empty headings probably also fail SC1.3.1 Info and Relationships [2]
>> check out Failure Technique F43: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1
>> due to using structural markup in a way that does not represent
>> relationships in the content [3]
>
> Yes, I'd agree it certainly fails 1.3.1 (this is where I normally flag empty
> headings in audits).
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