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Re: Should site logos be H# tags?

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Nov 16, 2005 3:00PM

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>not sure how likely it is that people navigate a site/page via reading
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Many screen reader users extract headings (say using Jaws) from a page
and therefore by scanning which aspects of the page content they may be
interested in, can navigate to them quickly, often bypassing the main
"site navigation". IMO - Aside from semantic issues, its very useful to
use accurate and informative heading titles for this reason.

Josh


Austin, Darrel wrote:

>There's the age-old semantic debate as to what should be considered an
>actual header.
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>On our current site, we have the site title, the 'sub site' title, and
>then the content title:
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>Minnesota Judicial Branch
>2nd District
>How to pay a ticket
>Page content
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>>From a semantics standpoint, this is usually the argued solution:
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>H1 = Minnesota Judicial Branch
>H2 = 2nd District
>H3 = How to pay a ticket
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>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.
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>-Darrel
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