Re: regions of a page failure technique

I agree. The drafted failure in question presently states in the test
procedure:
"Examine the page to confirm there are regions that are visually distinct
and contain distinct content."

I think this would include the example above.


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:03 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:

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> *From:* Adam Solomon [mailto:adam.solomon2@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 19, 2016 8:30 AM
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> What do you mean by substantive? I question whether different regions of a
> page are required by wcag to be marked up as such. Consider a page which
> has multiple content regions. One of the regions of the page has
> descriptive text of a certain topic. Another has a gallery of pictures.
> Substantially different to be sure, yet if there are no visual headers I
> have always understood that wcag does not mandate special markup except at
> level AAA with headers.
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> They’re visually different regions in the sense that their contents are
> distinct, but unless presentation is being used specifically to distinguish
> these structural components, SC 1.3.1 does not apply, as I interpret it.
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> I think the original proposal here was not designed to cover this kind of
> case. Instead, I think it’s confined to situations in which (visual)
> presentation is used, and intended, to convey structural information that
> must also be present in the markup – in this instance, markup that
> distinguishes various components of the page that can be identified by ARIA
> landmark roles.
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> Of course, if the author is using layout, fonts or other techniques to
> distinguish the structural components then SC 1.3.1 comes into play.
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