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Originally Posted by KevinH
You do understand the purpose of semantic tags like h1-h6 in html markup, right? You can of course use CSS to make the headings look virtually any way you want, but using the proper heading tags allows automated reading system to auto-detect structure for those who need accessibility help.
KevinH
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I've seen a
lot of disdain about structure and heading classes recently, as I toodle along on the Net, visiting various forums. Those people, for example, who are having issues in the LITB at Amazon are being told to
change their heading classes into
paragraph classes, for some oddball reason (by civilian posters at the forums, mind you, not support personnel or professionals).
One just cannot seem to explain WHY structure matters to folks. It's just...I dunno the problem, but my inability to explain the importance of doing something correctly, over simply solving one quick problem by doing that same thing improperly, frustrates the hell out of me. Falls
entirely on deaf ears. It's like trying to explain why a hand-coded book is different or better than one made automagically. If they can't
SEE it, fuhgeddaboudit.
Hitch