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Re: [EXTERNAL] Doubts regarding website logo

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Aug 17, 2020 10:58AM

Hi Bobby,

I'm not sure I understand why having a logo as the H1 breaks accessibility. It seems like the obvious choice to me.

For example, suppose you have a website of a company called The Company. The home page has a 'The Company' logo at the top. What should be the main heading of this page?

It's the home page but you're not going to put a heading 'Home' on it. It probably doesn't have any visible title that could sensibly be used as the page heading. The sensible choice for the home page title and therefore the H1 is usually 'The Company'.

You already have a logo which contains the words "The Company" and the text alternative of that is "The Company", so rather than add another heading, doesn't make sense to use that?

But you don't want to do this on any page other than the home page because other pages need a unique title specific to their content. This means you end up with some inconsistency - on other pages the logo is only a link. But I don't think that's a problem at all.

Mark