RE: APG Landmark Design Pattern Update and Questions related to Banner and Contenting landmarks from Léonie Watson on 2016-02-10 (public-aria@w3.org from February 2016)

From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:39:55 -0000
To: "'Birkir Gunnarsson'" <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>, "'Matt King'" <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Richard Schwerdtfeger'" <richschwer@gmail.com>, "'Gunderson, Jon R'" <jongund@illinois.edu>, "'James Nurthen'" <james.nurthen@oracle.com>, <public-aria@w3.org>
Message-ID: <054201d1643a$dab12be0$901383a0$@tink.uk>

> From: Birkir Gunnarsson [mailto:birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com]
> Sent: 10 February 2016 19:32
> The way I think of, use, and explain landmarks is that they are not descriptive
> of the page content, but of the page layout.
> The intent is to communicate information that a sighted user gathers from
> looking at the page on the screen.

That's exactly how I think of them, and describe them to developers.

Léonie.

Received on Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:40:43 UTC