Pay Online | St Albans City and District Council

Council tax | St Albans City and District Council

News archive | St Albans City and District Council

St Albans City and District Council

Working together | St Albans City and District Council

News and what's on | St Albans City and District Council

Council tenants | St Albans City and District Council

Housing | St Albans City and District Council

Private sector housing | 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.

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Title / URL	Issues
Pay Online \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/pay-online	1
Council tax \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/council-tax	1
News archive \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/news?page=1	1
St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/	1
News archive \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/news?page=7	1
Working together \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/working-together	1
News and what's on \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/news-and-whats	1
Council tenants \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/council-tenants	1
Housing \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/housing	1
Private sector housing \| St Albans City and District Councilwww.stalbans.gov.uk/private-sector-housing	1

Ensure every page contains a top-level heading

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