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From: Wolfgang Berndorfer
Date: Mar 7, 2018 1:19PM

Hi Lisa,
Seems, you've said everything that had to be said:
1. Both variants (Web-like realization / TOC optimization) are possible and
therefore have to be considered.
2. [Argumentum ex nihilo] Since nobody out there brought in some standards
or guidelines, there couldn't be any.
I participated at the survey and personally try out the H1 navigation in
documents as a screen reader user very often, but seldom satisfied. The
problem is usually not the frequency of H1, but the heading hierarchy at
all.
Documents linked on web pages or as e-mail attachments should be focused
more intensively for accessibility and usability issues. Perfidiously they
seem so easily to realize via "save as".
Thanks for Your singular answer!
Wolfgang
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von L Snider
Gesendet: Dienstag, 06. März 2018 22:02
An: WebAIM Discussion List
Betreff: Re: [WebAIM] Heading Structure for Documents

Hi Wolfgang,

Many people will say that you can have more than one H1 in a document, and
others only use one, such as myself (there is the rare occasion where I
will use 2 heading 1s). You will hear both sides, and arguments for both...

If you haven't already seen this, the Webaim screen reader survey had a
question about headings. Now this question, even though it doesn't state
web page in there was geared to a web page. However, in my view one could
use those results and correlate them to documents. Not everyone will agree
with me, but I have asked many screen reader users and in my experience
they like one Heading 1. Not everyone will have that same experience.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/#heading

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Wolfgang Berndorfer <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Web sides should optimally have a singular heading with level 1 to
navigate
> to the main content. But how about MS Word documents or PDF?
>
> If I generate a table of contents via Word functionalities in a document
> with correct heading semantics, the heading structure seems outlandish
with
> one H1.
>
> Do You have any solutions or even standards for heading hierarchies in
> documents? Didn't find any.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> > > > >