diff --git a/src/components/dashboard/__tests__/dashboard-header.test.tsx b/src/components/dashboard/__tests__/dashboard-header.test.tsx
index 7746aaf6a..9b45f6014 100644
--- a/src/components/dashboard/__tests__/dashboard-header.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/dashboard/__tests__/dashboard-header.test.tsx
@@ -43,4 +43,15 @@ describe("<DashboardHeader> — greeting", () => {
     // The title itself stays.
     expect(html).toContain("Dashboard");
   });
+
+  // 2026-07-17 a11y audit (M4) — the dashboard is the app's landing surface
+  // and must expose a page-level `<h1>`. It comes from the shared
+  // `PageHeader` the header renders, so a screen-reader user navigating by
+  // heading lands on a real page anchor (not the Today hero's muted `<h2>`
+  // micro-label). No separate sr-only heading is added — that would double
+  // the `h1`.
+  it("renders a real page-level h1 with the dashboard title", () => {
+    const html = renderSSR(<DashboardHeader onQuickEntry={() => undefined} />);
+    expect(html).toMatch(/<h1[^>]*>Dashboard<\/h1>/);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/components/insights/derived/coach-read-strip.tsx b/src/components/insights/derived/coach-read-strip.tsx
index 8971fd4ea..94a847fee 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/derived/coach-read-strip.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/derived/coach-read-strip.tsx
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ export function CoachReadStrip({
         <TileHeader
           icon={Sparkles}
           title={t("insights.coach.readStrip.label")}
+          // L3 — top-level section on every metric sub-page, sibling of the
+          // already-`h2` stat strip directly under the page `h1`.
+          titleAs="h2"
         />
       </CardHeader>
       <CardContent>
diff --git a/src/components/insights/metric-target-summary.tsx b/src/components/insights/metric-target-summary.tsx
index 41d4eec69..aec8c9079 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/metric-target-summary.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/metric-target-summary.tsx
@@ -316,6 +316,9 @@ function TargetReferencePanel({
         <TileHeader
           icon={Target}
           title={t("insights.target.heading")}
+          // L3 — top-level section on every metric sub-page, sibling of the
+          // already-`h2` stat strip directly under the page `h1`.
+          titleAs="h2"
           right={
             target.classification ? (
               <TargetStatusPill