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Re: [EXTERNAL]Doubts regarding website logo

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From: bobby accessibility
Date: Aug 20, 2020 7:59AM

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your detailed observation, appreciate it.

Since we are not consistent with the logo as it will move with top
navigation (work as global nav) commonly used with all the pages. And I am
sure the page structure would not be the same as we have in the Home page
without the main heading and logo has been taken as H1, I believe other
pages should have their own H1 (main heading).

Because of this reason it would fail the consistency level. I would prefer
content authors should provide the relevant main heading for the home page
so that we will separate logo announcements as heading and let it drive
consistently for all across pages.

Also this won't help users to use "Skip to main content" to bypass the
global nav where we have the logo, generally Logo comes at the beginning of
the page, and in this case it would be little complex to set the focus on
main body without main heading (as main body of the page should start from
H1 for best user experience). I know you can add a *main landmark *at the
beginning of the main div of the main body but it would not be that smooth
and logically perfect for users.

I will suggest we need to provide a smooth journey for users without
raising any confusion.

Regards,
Bobby.



On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 8:59 PM Mark Magennis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
>
>