- From: Matt May <mcmay@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:42:46 -0700
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 02:47 PM, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >> Good question! >> In the archive section of my site, I would (hmm. I guess that's >> "will", now) make the title of the entry into the <h1>, since it is >> the only meaningful header in the document, and change the title of >> the site into a <div>, since it's not as relevant in the rest of the >> site as it is on the home page. > > Except you've just eliminated one level of the information hierarchy > entirely. That's not a good thing. No, I haven't. It's only an <h1> on the home page because it is the most relevant descriptor of the document. Elsewhere, it's metadata, a component of consistent user interface -- and arguably useless to people browsing in header view. Please, Kynn, won't you please let me tear down my own site? :) > The problem is your insistence that the <h1> _must_ represent the most > important content: no, the <h1> _must_ represent something in the > hierarchy that applies to the entire page, and which includes the > following <h2> (etc) headers. In this section of the site, though, the main content is and will only be relevant to that one heading. I won't have more than one heading per page in the archives, and it's the only reason to visit that page. So in this case I wouldn't say that I'm insisting on the most important content; rather, it's the only content that applies to the page, and therefore, in my mind, should be an <h1>. - m
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