Sufficient Technique C27 not correct for SC 1.3.2?

In Sufficient Technique C27 'Making the DOM order match the visual order' it says "This technique is Sufficient to meet 1.3.2: Meaningful Sequence". I don't think this is correct. I'm concerned that it may sometimes cause a failure of 1.3.2, not a pass. This would happen for example if a piece of content was visually positioned above its heading.

Here's a concrete example. A web page contains a number of eLearning resources. Some are videos, some are audiobooks. Each resource has a title, a type ("video" or "audiobook"), and a text description. The titles are big and bold and are headings in order to meet SC 1.3.1 Info and Relationships. So the meaningful sequence must have the type and the description after the title (the heading). If they were before the title they would be under the previous heading which would give them the incorrect meaning and fail SC 1.3.2. But visually the type ("video" or "audiobook") is positioned above the title. This is actually quite a common visual layout for this type of info. In this case, following C27 'Making the DOM order match the visual order' would mean placing the type before the title (its heading) in the DOM. This would cause a failure of 1.3.2, not a pass.

So I would suggest that it is wrong for C27 to state that it is "Sufficient to meet 1.3.2: Meaningful Sequence".

Am I missing something?

Here's an image showing the example I described to help sighted list members (not sure if the list allows images so you might have to ignore this):

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Mark Magennis (he)
Senior Accessibility Specialist
Skillsoft
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