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Re: Headings or not headings?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 2, 2022 8:10AM

On 02/02/2022 14:34, Fernand van Olphen wrote:

> A follow up question: what if something looks like a heading, but isn't marked up with a <h#>, is there a way to pass 1.3.1?

That gets into the very subjective "does that *look* and more
importantly *act* as a heading?" question. To me, it's reasonably clear
that those aren't headings per se, but individual items...they just
happen to be visually styled a bit bigger.

And there's the dirty secret of WCAG...there is much more
subjectivity/vagueness than what the SCs initially seem to suggest.

P
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