The page has more than one header region
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- WCAG
- Best practice: a recommendation, not a WCAG success criterion
- Severity
- Moderate: a degraded experience
- Typical effort
- Quick win, under 1 hour
- Category
- Page structure
Who this affects
Screen reader users navigating by page regions.
Why it matters
Several page-level headers make it unclear which one is the site header.
How to fix it
Keep a single top-level <header>. Headers inside articles or sections are fine, because they are not page-level.
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