Using appropriate headings on a webpage not only makes the content easier to navigate, but ensures accessibility software knows how to relay the information to its users.
There should be a hierarchy to the headings on your page. Your page title will be a ‘Heading 1’, so the next headings on your page should be the ‘Heading 2’ option. If you want to have subheadings below those, you would choose ‘Heading 3’, and so on.
This not only ensures your content is accessible, but will also help the SEO (search engine opimisation) of you page, making it easier for people to find when searching online.
You should not add headings to your webpage by simply making text bold or underlined, as accessibility software does not view this as a heading. Instead, you should add headings using the format tab in the ‘general content’ content type.
If you are deleting a heading, it is important to delete the whole line rather than just the copy. This will remove the formatting, and ensure accessibility software isn’t telling people there is a heading there when there is not.