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From: Martin Godfrey
Date: Oct 19, 2004 5:17AM

I have a quick question about HTML heading styles.

Now, we all understand that it's important to use heading styles to give
structure to documents and enable screen-reader users to navigate a page.

A strict reading of WAI guidelines is that heading styles must be used in
strict sequence ie. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5.
However, not all pages lend themselves to this; on some pages it is
appropriate to move, for example from H1 to H2 to H4.

My question to the group is whether this is a problem in terms of
accessibility ?
My feeling is that this approach enables us to use headings consistently so
that a particular heading level always corresponds to the same type of
information.

However RNIB took the view on a recent audit that skipping heading styles in
this manner was illegal.

Any opinions on this ? Please reply directly to me ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )as
well as the list.

Thanks and regards
Martin


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