Employee benefits and retirement plan solutions | Principal

Build your knowledge | Principal

Third-party administrators | Principal

Retirement savings & investing for individuals | Principal

Annuities | Principal

Financial Professionals | Principal

Insights and resources for financial professionals | Principal

Every page should have a clearly defined heading, known as a "H1" (Heading 1).

A `H1` is the main heading of the page. It helps accessibility by allowing uses to
skip to the main content of the page. It helps all users identify what the page is about. 
It helps SEO by giving special emphasis to the topic of the page.

It is not enough to simply include large text. Headings must be coded 
[semantically](https://html.com/semantic-markup/) as `<h1>` tags, like so:

```html
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
```

Note that headings must contain some machine readable text to be considered valid. 
For example, this heading is not valid:

```html
<h1>
    <img src="company-logo.png">
</h1>
``` 

But with the addition of `alt` text, this heading is valid:

```html
<h1>
    <img src="company-logo.png" alt="About Company Inc.">
</h1>
``` 

Generally we recommend you just use plain text for your headings.
See [Technique H42](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H42) for more details.

missing-h1

October 2025

September 2025

Principal Financial Group

Title / URL	Issues
Employee benefits and retirement plan solutions \| Principalwww.principal.com/businesses	1
Build your knowledge \| Principalwww.principal.com/individuals/build-your-knowledge	1
Third-party administrators \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro/third-party-administrators	1
Retirement savings & investing for individuals \| Principalwww.principal.com/individuals/invest-retire	1
Annuities \| Principalwww.principal.com/individuals/invest-retire/annuities	1
Financial Professionals \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro	1
Insights and resources for financial professionals \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro/insights	1

Ensure every page contains a top-level heading

Principal Financial Group

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