A librarian is checking the reading-festival page shown in Fig. 1. The page uses a heading hierarchy so that a screen-reader user can move through the conte...
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A librarian is checking the reading-festival page shown in Fig. 1. The page uses a heading hierarchy so that a screen-reader user can move through the content. One heading has been given the wrong level. The title of the whole page is Reading Festival, while Author sessions and Poetry workshop are sections within it.
(a) State the heading tag that should be used for Reading Festival. [1]
(b) Give the tag that should replace the first tag in Fig. 1. [2]
(c) Explain why heading levels should not be chosen only to make text appear larger. [3]
Answer Details
(a) Reading Festival, the title of the whole page, should use <h1>. [1] The main page heading is level 1.
(b) The first heading should be written as <h1>Reading Festival</h1>. The opening <h1> earns [1] and the closing </h1> earns [1].
(c) Heading tags communicate document structure. [1] Screen readers use this hierarchy to navigate between sections. [1] Therefore levels should reflect the relationship between the page title and its sections, not visual size. Visual size should be controlled using CSS. [1]
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