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There have been various discussions in web development circles about whether we can skip heading levels for various reasons, including structural consistency.
Repurposing headers
One of the benefits of a proper and consistent heading structure in an HTML page is that they can be repurposed to improve access to the content. For example, the heading structure could [...]
The typical websites of today commonly have small forms in various locations on the page. These forms could be logins, subscribing to mailing lists, site search, blog comment form; they are ubiquitous because they tend to cover important use cases on a site.
It makes sense to inform screenreader users of these forms – particularly login [...]