Accessibility at St. Olaf – St. Olaf College

Future Students – St. Olaf College

About St. Olaf – St. Olaf College

First time visit: View without clicking anything

St. Olaf College – A private liberal arts college of the Lutheran church in Minnesota

Academics – St. Olaf College

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

November 2025

October 2025

St. Olaf College

Title / URL	Issues
Accessibility at St. Olaf – St. Olaf Collegewp.stolaf.edu/accessibility/	1
Future Students – St. Olaf Collegewp.stolaf.edu/future-students	1
About St. Olaf – St. Olaf Collegewp.stolaf.edu/about/	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwp.stolaf.edu/	1
St. Olaf College – A private liberal arts college of the Lutheran church in Minnesotawp.stolaf.edu/	1
Academics – St. Olaf Collegewp.stolaf.edu/academics/	1

Ensure every page contains a top-level heading

St. Olaf College

Where this issue has occurred