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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 16, 2005 1:00PM

There's the age-old semantic debate as to what should be considered an
actual header.

On our current site, we have the site title, the 'sub site' title, and
then the content title:

Minnesota Judicial Branch
2nd District
How to pay a ticket
Page content

>From a semantics standpoint, this is usually the argued solution:

H1 = Minnesota Judicial Branch
H2 = 2nd District
H3 = How to pay a ticket

But from an accessibility standpoint, does that make as much sense? I'm
not sure how likely it is that people navigate a site/page via reading
down the headers, so maybe this isn't a major issue. I will have 'skip
to content' links at the very top as well.

-Darrel