Accessibility: Text appears to be a heading but is not a heading element

[laurelthrash]

Reported Issue:

• Issue: For pages with for On This Page sections, <p> elements are being inserted within the auto-generated <h2> elements.
• How to fix: Don’t allow the CMS to insert <p> elements within heading elements. More info (kind of).
• Priority: Minor
• Affects: Pages that use On This Page functionality.
• Pages: How to Apply for DCEG Fellowships, Transition to Industry Fellowship (T2I) (site in development), Stomach Cancer Treatment, etc.
• Exception: Months ago, I noticed this issue on PDQ pages, but now, no longer see the issue on the PDQ pages I’ve checked. See Breast Cancer Treatment and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (Islet Cell Tumors) Treatment.

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History: Reported on a July 2023 accessibility scan. Project board "Accessibility Issues (2023.07)" linked in the ticket. Original document here: Accessility Issues - Template and Non-Content (1).docx

[arcepaul]

Can we have Min do a sitewide search of content to see exactly where and how many occurrences take place on the sites in question?
We would request for her to look for <p> appearing in <h2>

[santwuma]

@zhuomingao can you please help with above comment?

[zhuomingao]

@arcepaul , for www.cancer.gov, articles with body section headings have

inside <h2 tag, there are about 365 article pages have this. On DCEG.cancer.gov there are 77 such cases.

[arcepaul]

thanks, @zhuomingao !

[santwuma]

This is an IA fix - @lburack to submit JIRA ticket for fix. Will need to rerun report to identify and finalized all locations. Last report indicated this was present in 77 places.

[santwuma]

@arcepaul to spike and review code for future permanent fix. Revisit need to manually updates exiting places with this issue after spike is complete.