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From: Karen Currier
Date: Feb 17, 2005 3:00PM

Do you know Patrick, I'll have to admit that I've not tried to put a
into a web page on it's own and then run it through the validators! But
from what I've understood it's best to have a followed by and so
on for each page. Even if they're just repeating headings that appeared on
another page, it helps the user understand what the is a sub-heading of
within the website (especially for users who haven't started on page 1) for
example:

Title of the website
Title of this section
Title of this page

Thanks for reminding me that validators aren't perfect :-)

All the best

Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: redux [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: 17 February 2005 21:41
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] headings


karen wrote:

> To correctly valid your web page you cannot have a appear on a web
page
> without a and a preceding it.

What validation are we talking about? W3C's XHTML validator? In that
case, I'm afraid that's not correct...it will quite happily accept an
even without higher level headings before it. Of course, if it's
valid from a logic/structure point of view is another matter entirely...

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