[html5] Using <section> and <h1> ? Theoretical?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed May 14 12:11:35 PDT 2014


On Wed, 14 May 2014, Bruce Lawson wrote:
> 
> See this video by a blind web developer called "Importance of HTML 
> Headings for Accessibility" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUPhEVWu_E

It's worth noting that in this video Aaron never actually pays any 
attention to the levels. In fact much of the time he stops JAWS before it 
can actually report the level of the heading.

But yes, to support tools that don't yet support <section>, one should use 
<h2>-<h6>. That's why the spec allows this. It was part of the original 
design of <section> and friends, almost 10 years ago now. :-)

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