1.3.1 info and relationships

Hello,

Is 1.3.1 specifically focused on the visual presentation of the page or is it more focused on the semantics in the page?

I can see that visual presentation is often an easy way to provide semantic context, but there are other ways that the semantics within the page may be incorrect.

Specifically, the failure F43 which talks about ‘using structural markup in a way that does not represent relationships in the context’ specifies that it applies ‘when structural markup is used to achieve a presentational effect, but indicates relationships that do not exist in the content’

So my question is, does this incorrect structural mark-up have to ‘achieve a presentational effect’ for this failure to apply? I would have thought it didn’t, but I wanted to confirm. Could that description be amended to: ‘when structural markup is used but indicates relationships that do not exist in the content’

For example, if text visually appears no different from the surrounding text but has been spuriously marked up as a heading or table or within a landmark implying it serves a semantic purpose that it does not, would this also fail 1.3.1?

Thanks

Sarah

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