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From: Kevin Prince
Date: Mar 25, 2018 4:09PM

Well said Karen. I'm far less bothered by a jump in heading level which makes sense than I am by slavishly saying all is good because the sighted and mark-up are equally as illogical.. If the document using confused visual styles (in the broadest sense - ie larger text/bold/underline/actual h levels) then there is clearly a cognitive issue in following the content which needs remediation before applying 1.3.1 to it.

Interestingly this doesn't appear to be addressed in any specific point in WCAG 2.0 - perhaps the time is right to move beyond merely technical checkpoints?

A colleague and I used to refer to the kind of issue we are discussing as ‘equal opportunity inaccessibility' - the page in question was accessible but equally unusable whether you can see it or not.

Kevin
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