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Re: Should site logos be H# tags?

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Nov 16, 2005 8:20PM

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I think so. Whatever form your structure takes it is important to be
consistent across your site, so you dont mark up your main headings as
H1 on some pages and then use it for some other purpose on another.

Hope this helps

Josh


Austin, Darrel wrote:

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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.
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>Right...and hence my question.
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>Is it annoying to navigate pages via headers and hear the site/subsite
>on each and every page? Or would people prefer to have the H1 be the
>first header of unique content on that page? Or is this just a really
>minor issue?
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>-Darrel
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