Screen readers provide information about headers on a page, and users use that to navigate to the relevant portion of a page. When headers are in sensible hiera

Screen readers provide information about headers on a page, and users use that to navigate to the relevant portion of a page. When headers are in sensible hierarchical order, this is easier to do. That said, while it's a best practice to keep headings in a sensible order, skipping heading levels is not a WCAG AA violation.