WCAG validation

I’m not sure if I’m willing to fix this. First of all I think this is because of the silly way (IMHO, that is obviously) HTML is structuring it’s headings. H1 to H6 is silly. XHTML 2.0 solves this by making one type of heading that is placed inside sections, so the nesting of the sections defines the importance of the heading.
Second, and that is a more practical approach, this theme is intended to be used as a groundwork for other themes, so my aim is that it changes dramatically for every theme that is based on it and the responsibility to make that theme comply the various standards is up to the theme developer.

On the other hand, if this simple basic theme doesn’t even comply than how can you expect themes based on it to do so. So I will have a look, also because I like diving into this stuff and maybe I find a very interesting solution.

Thanks for posting this issue and bringing it to my attention.

With Commit #218928 this should be fixed

Hmmm, with version 1.2 this is still not good. I need to find a different solutions or I might fall back on what I said in comment #1.

I’ll appreciate your input very much, but I doubt if this is a proper solution. I can put everything inside a div and give it a class, which is of course not beneficial to usability. This just demonstrates what I meant in comment #1.

I think the only way to do this is to have the content section above the (navigational) sidebars in the HTML. Than the only way to have the “left sidebar” to the left of the content, is to use positioning. Which, for other reasons, is not always possible or practical.

By the way, there is also an issue with the h1. I have seen some themes with the logo inside the h1. I personally don’t think that is the right content for a h1. Because it is something general about the site not about a specific page. Inside the h1 should be the header that is the main header of that particular page. So I changed that in my theme to be the $title. But unfortunately that title is not always present. In that case the order of the headings is broken too, as it does not start with a h1. Maybe I’m missing some point here, I’m not that experienced yet with (theming) Drupal.

Here’s a nice piece about headings and their hierarchy: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200901/headings_heading_hierarchy_...