RE: regions of a page failure technique

+1 likewise.

From: Wayne Dick [mailto:wayneedick@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:02 PM
To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: regions of a page failure technique


+1
Note a <div> with class = nav, heading or footer is a tip off in HTML 4.
Use Case:
There are pages that do have obvious heading, navigation and footer information (not all pages but many), the WAI page for example.  WCAG allows you to bypass these blocks with skip links, but usually skip links say go to main content. On the second or third visit to a page you may want to go to a specific navigation area, or to the footer for related links or the "contact us" link.  HTML 5 recognized the existence of these groupings and formalized it into elements, but the semantics were always there. We can certainly list these groupings in our techniques. Failure to enable screen readers users a way to get to these region
fails to call out relationships that are expressed by presentation only.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:54 AM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca<mailto:david100@sympatico.ca>> wrote:
I had an action item to update the proposal for a failure identified in issue 173

"Failure of 1.3.1 due to regions of a page which are visually distinct,
​​
​and which ​
contain distinct groups of content (headers, footers, navigation bars, main content, asides) not being programmatically determinable or identified by text.":

I've added language to ensure these concerns that were raised are exempt.

1) Content that is not distinct visually is not a failure
2) Content that is not distinct  in substance is not a failure
3) Content that only has one or two items is not a failure because it is not a region (group of content)

I support the technique because it is (1) a common failure of 1.3.1 (2) it is straight forward to fix (3) I would like to ensure we haven't frozen the ability to introduce common failures (4) it always was a failure, but currently it is easy to fix and we want to encourage a culture that allows blind people to easily find and identify regions

Cheers,
David MacDonald



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