HTML and XHTML
This technique relates to:
JAWS and WindowEyes all provide navigation via headings and provide information about the level of the heading. The Opera browser provides a mechanism to navigate by headings. Additional plugins support navigation by headings in other user agents.
The objective of this technique is to demonstrate how using the heading elements, h1 - h6, to markup the beginning of each section in the content can assist in navigation. Most assistive technologies and many user agents provide a mechanism to navigate by heading elements by providing keyboard commands that allow users to jump from one heading to the next. Using heading elements to markup sections of a document allows users to easily navigate from section to section.
This example organizes the sections of a search page by marking each section heading using h2 elements.
<h1>Search Technical Periodicals</h1> <h2>Search</h2> <form action="search.php"> <p><label for="searchInput">Enter search topic: </label> <input type="text" size="30" id="searchInput"> <input type="submit" value="Go"></p> </form> <h2>Available Periodicals</h2> <div class="jlinks"> <a href="pcoder.com">Professional Coder</a> | <a href="algo.com">Algorithms</a> | <a href="jse.com">Journal of Software Engineering</a> </div> <h2>Search Results</h2> ... search results are returned in this section ...
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For all content which is divided into separate sections,
Check that each section is marked with one of the elements h1-h6.
Check #1 is true.