Some observations on headings in sections elements in HTML.

Below demonstrates that the h1-element adjusts it’s appearance level based on the section element. This is conform the standard. It is behaving like the h-element as I remember it being proposed with XHTML2. When inspecting the attributes in Firefox’s accessibility inspector, however, the level attribute is still equal to the element’s number. Also, this increase in appeared header-level doesn’t change for h2-elements and up.

Example

h1 in section-element

Not all h1 are equal

h2 in section-element

Notice h...