Retirement savings & investing for individuals | Principal

Insights and resources for financial professionals | Principal

Financial professional news | Principal

Financial Professionals | Principal

Our insurance products | Principal

Annuities | Principal

News room | Principal

Retirement, Investments, and Insurance | Principal

Sustainability | Principal

Retirement | 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

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Principal Financial Group

	Title / URL	Issues
	Retirement savings & investing for individuals \| Principalwww.principal.com/individuals/invest-retire	1
	Insights and resources for financial professionals \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro/insights	1
	Financial professional news \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro/financial-professional-news	1
	Financial Professionals \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro	1
	Our insurance products \| Principalwww.principal.com/individuals/insure	1
	Annuities \| Principalwww.principal.com/individuals/invest-retire/annuities	1
	News room \| Principalwww.principal.com/about-us/news-room	1
	Retirement, Investments, and Insurance \| Principalwww.principal.com/	1
	Sustainability \| Principalwww.principal.com/sustainability	1
	Retirement \| Principalwww.principal.com/finpro/retirement	1

Ensure every page contains a top-level heading

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