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Re: Heading Structure for Documents

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From: L Snider
Date: Mar 7, 2018 6:34PM

I can't think of any standards off hand that require one or the other, they
either have to be present (headings in general) and/or in order...Someone
will correct me if I am wrong.

Many on the list may chime in saying that they use more than one H1 in
documents. I think we had a discussion about this about 1-2 years ago,
might be worth checking the archives as that discussion will give you the
basics on what you were looking for (from memory).

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Wolfgang Berndorfer <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] Im Auftrag
> 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
> >
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