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674: A11y Treats - Heading Design
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about headings on your website, why you should care, how to structure your headings, and what tooling is there for testing your website?
Show Notes 00:26 Welcome
01:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:41 Why do we care about Headings?
How-to: Accessible heading structure - The A11Y Project
03:12 Heading design provides an outline for your website
08:45 Using H1 classes?
10:28 Is the logo an H1?
13:03 Giving an ARIA level
17:14 Can headings be visually hidden?
21:00 Benefits of good heading design
22:27 Tooling
Heading outlines - ADG
HTML Standard
Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
HeadingsMap - Chrome Web Store
HeadingsMap – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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