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<p>For my money, best practices for documents are clearer than they
are for the web. See citations of recent discussions, below. I
believe it's critical to be realistic when it comes to heading
recommendations, especially on the web.<br>
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<p>Basically, I think there are a lot bigger "accessibility fish to
fry" than trying to be absolutely rigid about the idea of one h1
on a webpage.</p>
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<p>I think it's hard, and not realistic, to have a
one-size-fits-all rule on the web, given the use of content
management systems. So, for the web, I focus on the idea of
*consistent* use of headings, and that benefits everyone,
including those who are in charge of style sheets.</p>
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<p>But for documents, my tendency would be to say: "if it works like
a book, make it work like a book . . . i.e. h1 is your title, so
there should be only one." Documents are much easier to control,
or, they *can* be, depending on tools and competency. Given all of
the document checkers and toolbars for accessibility that are
around, they should be helping make Word documents and PDFs
better.<br>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Jennifer</p>
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<p>Three citations, mostly web-focused and two of the three based on
recent discussions of trying to automate headings:</p>
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<p>The myth of automated heading outlines<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sarahebourne.posthaven.com/the-myth-of-automated-heading-outlines">http://sarahebourne.posthaven.com/the-myth-of-automated-heading-outlines</a></p>
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<p>The Document Outline Dilemma:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://css-tricks.com/document-outline-dilemma/">https://css-tricks.com/document-outline-dilemma/</a><br>
[longer than the citation above, but includedto help understand that
this is not simple/clearcut and why, imo]<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A page in a WAI tutorial, in progress:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/headings/">http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/headings/</a><br>
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On 3/25/2017 12:42 PM, Preast, Vanessa wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I’m
trying to put together a best practice handbook for our
stakeholders. While H1 use is clear for webpages, I have not
really been able to get a consensus answer on using Heading
1 in documents. Is Heading 1 always only used once to mark
the title, or can it be used multiple times in a Word
document? If the former, it seems to not fit well with the
auto-generated table of contents, which pulls in H1, H2 and
H3 by default…. What about book chapters vs book title?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">True
or False?</span></b><span
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Heading 1 can be used multiple times within a MS Word
document assuming the rest of the headings are nested
appropriately. (Unlike a webpage which only uses Heading 1
once per page).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">If
there is a definitive answer on using Headings in documents,
can you refer me to them? I want to make sure I’m providing
the best information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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