Heading

You should use subheadings to summarise and signpost different topics within the content on your page. This is especially important when you have a longer page with a lot of written content.

Subheadings make your page give your page better structure and visual appeal. 

They mean that visitors to your page can see the topics covered at a glance and whether the page contains the information they need. 

When a user is reading your page, subheadings summarise blocks of text and indicate changes in topic. 

Subheadings are also extremely important for web accessibility. They help people using screen reading technologies navigate and understand your content. However, this only works when your headings are nested correctly from 2 to 6. If you don't nest your headings correctly, your page will break for screenreaders.  

You need to nest your headings in the correct order for them to be helpful to people using screen reading technologies. 

Heading H1 is used for the page title, so the first available heading for you to use is H2. Although up to H6 is available, we would not recommend using this many levels. Instead, you could split your content into multiple pages to make your content less overwhelming.