- From: Martin Janecke <w3.org@prlbr.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:25:49 +0100
- To: lwatson@paciellogroup.com, 'Steve Faulkner' <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, 'Cynthia Shelly' <cyns@microsoft.com>
- Cc: info@3zero.co.uk, public-html@w3.org
On 01.12.15 09:22, Léonie Watson wrote: >> From: Martin Janecke [mailto:w3.org@prlbr.com] >> Sent: 30 November 2015 22:06 >> Isn't it strange to have these two but no page-specific headers? > > When <header> is scoped to <body> it represents the header for the document. From the HTML5.1 spec [1]: > > "When the nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element is the body element, then it applies to the whole page." > > Léonie. > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/semantics.html#the-header-element But the accessibility mapping to the banner role implies something else [1]: "banner (role): A region that contains mostly site-oriented content, rather than page-specific content." Regards Martin [1]: http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/aria.html#banner
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