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Bug 28555 - Your use of "Example" and "Note" in the CSS rather than HTML, when it carries substantial heading-type semantics, is kind of double standards ain't it?
Summary: Your use of "Example" and "Note" in the CSS rather than HTML, when it carries...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-ins...
Whiteboard: tools
Keywords:
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Reported: 2015-04-24 15:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2017-06-11 01:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-04-24 15:20:33 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-ins-element
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-ins-element
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html

Comment:
Your use of "Example" and "Note" in the CSS rather than HTML, when it carries
substantial heading-type semantics, is kind of double standards ain't it? 

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2015-04-24 19:25:21 UTC 
Yes. The intent is for the toolchain to address this but I haven't gotten to it yet.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2017-06-11 01:15:23 UTC 
I’m not sure what the original intent might have been here but we don’t currently have any plans to add h1-h6 heading elements to Notes and Examples in the HTML output of the spec. The semantics (such as they are) are captured with class=note and class=example attributes+values already, which is identical to how Bikeshed marks them up.

Notes and Examples should arguably have headings in order to make it easier for screen-reader users to navigate through them. But we’ve never actually gotten a feature request for that use case so I’m not sure it’s a real problem/priority in practice for actual users.

So I’m resolving this wontfix here, but if anybody following this wants to start fresh discussion on it, let’s do that over at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues