YLB ScoreYLB Score › The checks, explained › Part III, Will a stranger trust you?
The page has a main heading
A screen reader user often jumps straight to the main heading to learn what a page is. If there is none, they are reading a page with no title.
This is the same heading search engines look for; the fix serves both.
Worth about 1 point of your 100 for a typical businessAbout 5 min, by your web person
See for yourself
WAVE shows the heading structure of the page.
- Free toolWAVE, the free accessibility checker
How to fix it
- Make the first heading on the page a level-one heading that says what the business is.
The technical version, for your web person
<h1> present. Any <h1> on the homepage.
What the check reads. soup.find('h1') is truthy.
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