- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:58:48 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Jerry > I'm wondering who besides screen > reader users benefits from the use of real heading tags in documents. > I'd be interested in this group's thoughts. Heading elements are part of a document's structure; screen readers aren't the only software that use them - I have written parsers for various projects that take an (X)HTML document and extract information from it. Span elements give no indication of structure, since they are only used (as far as I know) to select a particular piece of styling. A heading element, however, makes it quite clear to the parsing software that a new section of the document is beginning. This is also a very good reason why structural markup should *not* be used just for text effects. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultant - KBC, South Australia KBC Web Site http://www.kbc.net.au PGP Public Key http://gpg.mss.cx
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