Place them back in the header, but style them in a manner that will still allow them to be read by speech readers & picked up by search engines, but will be invisible to visual users. For example:
<h1 style="left-margin:-9999px;"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<p style="left-margin:-9999px;><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></p>