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Accessibility

Page Structure and Headings

Use headingsÌýto structure the content of your page in a logical fashion. Screen readers use heading tags to navigate a page's content. Screen readerÌýusers canÌýhear an outline of the page's main ideas, then navigate the page using the headings to read the sections of the page that contains the information they need. Without headings, this method of skimming through content is impossible.

The logical order starts with H1 and works down to H6. The page title is set to an H1 automatically, the nextÌýheader should be an H2, and any subheads H3. Do not skip heading levels. Using headings properly can mean letting go of the way your page looks -- you might think the headers are too bigÌýor too small. But you've got to make your page work for everyone. Screen readerÌýusersÌýrely heavily on properly structured pages to help them skim the page.Ìý