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Bug 18057 - The potential to have and untitled section seems like a detriment to the point of outline. Likely a usability and accessibility hurdle. Should having a heading be required? Otherwise, whats the point of having an outline in the first place?
Summary: The potential to have and untitled section seems like a detriment to the poin...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-18 16:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-18 12:19 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 16:18:13 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 15939 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-02-08 23:29:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-02-08 23:29:13 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#outlines
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#outlines

Comment:
The potential to have and untitled section seems like a detriment to the point
of outline. Likely a usability and accessibility hurdle. Should having a
heading be required? Otherwise, whats the point of having an outline in the
first place?

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 #1   Jonathan Worent                                 2012-02-08 23:35:31 +0000 
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The spec indicates that 'untitled section' is not the required language. That not the point. 

The point is a section must always have a heading.
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Comment 1 Robin Berjon 2012-09-18 12:19:56 UTC 
Same decision as https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15939