RE: More than one h1 tag

Wasn't Micheal's point that what you are deeming the role of the H1 tag is
actually the role of the Page Title?  

In relation to assistive technologies would this make sense?



Thanks,
Sonia


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-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Harry Loots
Sent: 02 December 2009 09:17
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: More than one h1 tag

Ironically, Michael, the point perhaps more clearly illustrates why there
should be 1 H1 per page. A website is made up of a collection of webpages in
the same way as a book is made up of chapters. The webpage is the chapter -
it
takes on the parent title (H1), and every other title (H2-H6) on this page
(chapter) should relate directly to the parent title (H1), otherwise it
should
be better to split the page into multiple pages. 

Kind regards
Harry

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Michael Virant <mwvirant@gmail.com>
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Sent: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:15:04 +1100
Subject: Re: More than one h1 tag

> My view is that the web page TITLE is being conflated with the web page's
> one or more H1 tags in this topic.  Just as a book has one title it
> typically has several chapters.  Hence a web page should have one 
> title and as many H1 tags as is necessary to convey the same 
> structure.  Then within in chapter (section with heading H1) there 
> may or may not be the need to order future sub headings (H2) all 
> related to the H1 above it.
> 
> The alternative - to have only one H1 followed by one or more H2, H3 
> is disorientating for all users as it is an artificial 
> representation of the data.  For example if the second section 
> (under a H2) of a document bears no relation to the first section 
> (with H1) then semantic markup forces the relationship of the second 
> section to be a child of the first section when there is no such
elationship.
> 
> Michael Virant
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