Building control | St Albans City and District Council

Jobs and careers | St Albans City and District Council

Emergency support | St Albans City and District Council

Council and elections | St Albans City and District Council

Cemeteries and funerals | St Albans City and District Council

Benefits | St Albans City and District Council

Business and licensing | St Albans City and District Council

Food, hygiene and safety | St Albans City and District Council

Parking permits and suspensions | St Albans City and District Council

Climate and Sustainability | St Albans City and District Council

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

St Albans City & District Council

Title / URL	Issues
Building control \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/building-control	1
Jobs and careers \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers	1
Emergency support \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/emergency-support	1
Council and elections \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/council-and-elections	1
Cemeteries and funerals \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/cemeteries-and-funerals	1
Benefits \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/benefits	1
Business and licensing \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/business-and-licensing	1
Food, hygiene and safety \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/food-hygiene-and-safety	1
Parking permits and suspensions \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/parking-permits-and-suspensions	1
Climate and Sustainability \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/sustainability-and-climate	1

Ensure every page contains a top-level heading

St Albans City & District Council

Where this issue has occurred