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From: Fernand van Olphen
Date: Feb 3, 2022 4:17AM

2.4.6 Headings and labels

In a note it says:
The term label is not limited to the label element in HTML.

It doesn't say:
The term heading is not limited tot the h element in HTML.

I was thinking - overthinking probably- that a caption, a legend or a dt can also function as "content that acts as a heading".

But am I right in thinking that Headings in this case points exclusively to the h-element?





Van: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > namens Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Verzonden: woensdag 2 februari 2022 16:10
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Onderwerp: Re: [WebAIM] Headings or not headings?

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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