Threaded Comments Should Use Heading Levels to Communicate Reply Depth

Created on 20 June 2014, over 10 years ago
Updated 29 May 2023, over 1 year ago

@terrill pointed out in #1272870-92: No semantics for nested comments / bad for screen-readers that threaded comments could be used to track the depth of the reply.

I was thinking about this too and think that there are some real strengths to this idea.

Couple things to consider:

  • You'd want the semantics to change but not the size. This could be accomplished with CSS, but it would be a tricky pattern.
  • If you allowed headings within the body of the comments, where would you start? Allowing anyone to insert a H4 would be fine until you're 2 replies deep at which point it starts to break the semantics.
  • What happens if you're 5 replies deep? There are only 6 heading levels, right?

Still it's an interesting idea and there may be some way to make this work.

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