South Asia Centre

Publications

What's on

Search News

Search People

Care Policy and Evaluation Centre

Hellenic Observatory

Executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy

Using the Library

AI at LSE

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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August 2025

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The London School of Economics and Political Science

	Title / URL	Issues
	South Asia Centrewww.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-centre	1
	Publicationswww.lse.ac.uk/ideas/publications	1
	What's onwww.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on	1
	Search Newswww.lse.ac.uk/News/Search-News	1
	Search Peoplewww.lse.ac.uk/People/Search-People	1
	Care Policy and Evaluation Centrewww.lse.ac.uk/cpec	1
	Hellenic Observatorywww.lse.ac.uk/Hellenic-Observatory	1
	Executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacywww.lse.ac.uk/ideas/exec	1
	Using the Librarywww.lse.ac.uk/library/using-the-library	1
	AI at LSEwww.lse.ac.uk/DSI/AI	1

Ensure every page contains a top-level heading

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