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

One way to deal with this situation is to ensure more users understand the
context. The gray shading behind the promotional content indicates to some
users that this text is "different," but that visual cue is not shared with
all users. Adding text or heading of "promotion" will allow more users to
perceive the difference.

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On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:07 AM Louise Lister <Louise.Lister@iop.org> wrote:

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> 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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