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Re: Logo as an h1??

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From: Tomlins Diane
Date: Mar 2, 2017 10:12AM

Thank you!
I don't know where they got this notion, but you have all confirmed my position on this, much appreciated.
Our logos are in the typical location - an image, top of the page and it's linked to the home page, with alt text that has the company/site name in it.

As for the consultants.. they weren't my choice, that part was out of my hands. I made several recommendations and these people were not among them. :-/

Diane R Tomlins
HCA Healthcare
Accessibility SME

>Diane -

>I would stick with your current practice of one <h1> as the main document title for all of the well-articulated reasons you provided.
>This provides very easy access to the main content area and the heading that describes what the content of that page is.

>The recommendation to make the logo an <h1> often comes from a common yet incorrect assumption that an <h1> must be the first heading in a document, which is sometimes reinforced by automated tools that flag this as an "error".

Jared