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Re: Query on heading hierarchy

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From: KP
Date: Mar 22, 2018 2:34PM

1.3.1 is fine. That doc in your shop needs an editor and a mandatory style guide :)

Kevin

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> On 23/03/2018, at 09:20, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I have to laugh right now as our shop works on one document created by several people, each with their own version of how Heading 2 should look, or their own "very special" bullets.
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> With every page bringing a new visual appearance of the headings, lists, and body text (all manually formatted, of course, without styles), I'm not sure it's possible to meet the SC 1.3.1 definition quoted below: ensure that information and relationships that are implied by visual or auditory formatting are preserved when the presentation format changes.
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> In this sample, there's no rhyme or reason to why one heading looks one way, another looks a different way. The multiple author's didn't create a structured, logical relationship anywhere in the document.
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> In umpteen decades of writing, editing, typesetting, designing, and programming documents (from SGML to XML and HTML), nowhere does the publishing industry say that structure must follow visual presentation.
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> It's the other way around: Logical structure comes first, then the visual formatting to make the structure clear.
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> SC 1.3.1 needs to be rewritten.
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> —Bevi
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>>> On 20/03/2018 16:28, glen walker wrote:
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>>> The purpose of the guideline is to make sure the
>>> semantic heading levels match the visual presentation.
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>> "The intent of this Success Criterion is to ensure that information
>> and relationships that are implied by visual or auditory formatting
>> are preserved when the presentation format changes." (Understanding SC
>> 1.3.1)
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