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Bug 15939 - 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: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-02-08 23:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-07 05:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-08 23:29:13 UTC
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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Comment 1 Jonathan Worent 2012-02-08 23:35:31 UTC
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.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 16:18:16 UTC
This bug was cloned to create bug 18057 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-07 05:26:11 UTC
I don't think it makes sense to require headings. There's plenty of pages on which sections, e.g. navigation sections, sidebars with ads in them, asides with pull quotes, etc, can or even should legitimately not have a heading. Yeah, on those pages the outline will not be perfectly pretty, but that's ok, IMHO.