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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Mar 22, 2018 10:51PM

Hi,

For my quick understanding let me consider this heading structure.
Countries(h1)
State1(h2)
City(h3)
State2(h2)
City(h3)
This naturally seems to be well structured and can find no issues if visual
appearance of headings matches with screen reader announcement of headings
also.
Now if the structure is like
Countries(h1)
State1(h2)
City(h2)
State2(h2)
City(h2)
Assume these are h2's visually also and screen reader speaks out the same.
Obviously it's a bad structure but screen reader conveys the same visual
formatting as they are real h2's.
Can I understand this context passes SC1.3.1. Am I getting the things right?

Regards,
Venkatesh