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From: Rick Hill
Date: Mon, Oct 01 2012 5:23PM
Subject: Header confusion
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Question:
In WCAG 2 I assumed that H levels were as always can't skip an H level. However at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H42.html#H42-ex2
This example implies you can skip a level to provide importance to and area of content. So, in the example, the left column and right column are H2 and the center column is an H1 since it has more importance.
Is thais allowed? The example would suggest it is. And if that's true, it would really help us assign semantic importance to main content that isn't5 the first content on a page in the reading order (as in the example).
Rick Hill, Web CMS Administrator
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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Wed, Oct 03 2012 10:25AM
Subject: Re: Header confusion
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Rick,
I'm going to duck the question of what WCAG allows, but share instead what users have told me. There's almost universal agreement that it's best if the content order and the headings hierarchy match up, but that what matters most is that the headings hierarchy is correct. The order becomes more important for large, complex pages, with many levels of headings.
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Sarah E. Bourne
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Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
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