Headings use heading tags

Inclusion and adaptation · essential check · measured from the page’s layout and styles · C167.1

Text styled as a section heading should be marked up as one, h1 to h6.

When it fails: Text styled as a heading isn’t marked up as one: a clear section heading lacks heading semantics
Warns when: A possible heading needs semantic review
Passes when: Section-heading appearance is supported by heading semantics
How to fix it: Change the element to the right heading level (h2, h3 …) and keep its look with a class. Screen-reader users move through a page by its headings.

Its threshold is a starting value that we still calibrate against real pages.

On the public reports

warns on 1passes on 4not evaluated on 2of 7 sites

is-aesthetic.com3 headings without heading markup · scores 72

No element pictures were kept for this result.

Not evaluated on www.gov.uk: No text styled as a heading.

Not evaluated on www.wikipedia.org: No text styled as a heading.

Public reports are the sites listed on the home page, each as last scanned. Pasted pages are never included.