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From: Jim Homme
Date: Dec 13, 2022 2:37PM

Hi,
Looking at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element, it seems to say that block level elements are allowed inside the text portion of an anchor tag. I'm looking at a page where there are some h3 tags inside anchors. Am I reading the spec correctly? I'm asking because the page in question keeps making the screen reader say heading 3 and link, when reading by arrow keys, which makes it sound like multiple links, when the source shows one link.

The page in question is https://highmarkwholecare.com/Medicare/Member-Tools/Get-Started-with-Highmark-Wholecare.

Thanks.

Jim
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