RE: Promotional header option that sits independently of <h1> to <h6>?

Brilliant, thanks Patrick. That really helps!

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From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> 
Sent: 01 June 2021 11:53
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Promotional header option that sits independently of <h1> to <h6>?

Sadly, HTML is limited in this respect ... the whole page has a single heading hierarchy, and it's not really possible to create separate zones/isolated blocks with their own internal hierarchy. The whole concept of heading outline algorithm was intended to partially address this, but sadly it's only a fiction and not really reality
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My general advice would be to just choose a particular heading level that's reasonably high up (like <h2>), and then stick to it. Nobody dies if a particular heading level is "missed" that's not a hard failure of WCAG - see discussion here
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