It's a somewhat common habit at RPG.se to use **bold sentences** to make the *appearance* of a header for a section of text, rather than using our existing header formatting. This is probably because it's a common hack elsewhere on the Internet where heading formatting isn't available, and because the button in the editor for bold is more obvious than the button for a heading.

# The problem #

This habit causes problems though, and is so easily avoided.

The Internet in general has many visually-impaired users, and we're no exception — we know of a number of site members who have said they are visually impaired. Visually impaired users commonly use one or more of a variety of accessibility software to navigate a question and its answers, and to have the part of interest read aloud. The problem with **bold sentences** used to make fake headers is twofold:

1. They aren't recognised as headings, so they can't be used for assisted navigation.
2. They aren't read aloud as headings, making it harder to figure out what the text is supposed to mean when read aloud.