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Re: Query on heading hierarchy

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From: glen walker
Date: Mar 26, 2018 11:54AM

Nice point, Osmo. I didn't really look at the details of the expanded
sections. Just the h1-h3 headings that are visible by default.

However, upon further look, I still wouldn't fail it. The "Full
Description" and "Examples" have an appropriate h4. Yes, there are several
occurrences of each one, but each one is correctly nested under the
appropriate h3.

The strong text under examples is more like a definition list
(<dl>/<dt>/<dd>), but definition lists aren't very well supported by AT. I
wouldn't fail the page just because the definition terms aren't marked as
headings. The terms are contained in a list and are easily navigable.
Now, if each term had a bunch of information below it then maybe it should
be a heading, but as the page currently stands the term is just followed by
a short paragraph definition, not really worth a heading. This is, of
course, just my subjective opinion.