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Wow, this will actually break my site.

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The "old" behavior is great because you don't need global knowledge; you can have a snippet that gets templated into various layers and still getting the right level of heading applied.

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It only worked visually. For screen reader users, all headings are level 1. If you switch to using h2 etc, it will be more accessible.

That's a problem with the screen reader implementation. At least, according to the previous semantics.

It was a problem with the screen reader implementation in 2009 when the semantics were introduced.

In 2025 if no screen reader works right it's a problem with the spec.

As of 2022 (when the outline algorithm was removed from the spec), it's a problem with your website implementation.

Yeah exactly. It makes a lot more sense to treat headers automatically.

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