- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:33:51 +0200
- To: Vivienne CONWAY <v.conway@ecu.edu.au>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:58:16AM +0800, Vivienne CONWAY wrote:
Hello Vivienne; and the W3C-GL:
> G141: To facilitate navigation and understanding of overall document
> structure, authors should use headings that are properly nested
> (e.g., h1 followed by h2, h2 followed by h2 or h3, h3 followed by h3
> or h4, etc.).
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G141
vs.
> H42: Example 2 apparently contradicts this by showing an H2 before
> an H1 and saying that headings should be used out of order (H42 is
> even linked to from G141) http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H42.html
As a tool vendor (site testing), we'd also like clarification on
this issue - at the moment we would flag the second example under
H42 as an error based on the principle of importance:
"A h2 is less important than an h1, so how can it come ABOVE it in
the hierarchy?").
This also ties in with the HTML5 outline algorithm, which is another
tricky detail in this puzzle.
Sincerely;
Tina Holmboe
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