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From: Claire Forbes
Date: Feb 27, 2024 4:30AM

Good morning,
I have a question regarding Heading Levels, please see the below for context and I'll ask my question at the end.

I created a one-page document that flowed with the following document styles:

* The document title as a Heading Level 1 <H1>
* Then a Paragraph of content <P>
* Then goes into a Heading Level 2 + the next section of content <H2> <P>
* The rest of the document goes from various <H2> to <P> until the end
The document title is also in the header and the company logo is in the footer.

Our QA office reviewed the document and removed the document title as Heading Level 1, started the document with a paragraph of instruction, then made all my original Heading Level 2s into Heading Level 1s.
So here's the QA's document structure: <P>, <H1>, <P>, <P>,<P>,<H1>, <P>, <P>, <H1>, <P>, etc....

Can someone please confirm this is non-complaint? A document should always start with an <H1> and not a <P>, correct?
Just because the document title is in the header of the document that's not a case for compliance because screen readers don't read headers and footers, correct?

Thank you!
Claire