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Broken Heading Hierarchy on WordPress

Screen reader users navigate by headings. Skipping levels makes content harder to understand.

Issue ID: A11Y-HEADING-001Severity: moderateEffort: S

Why this matters

Screen reader users navigate by headings. Skipping levels makes content harder to understand. This affects usability, compliance risk, and how many visitors can successfully consume the page.

WordPress fix path

How to fix this on WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

  • Use a heading outline checker to confirm sequential levels

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