Re: Should role=“contentinfo” be added on a footer or a p element?

Hi Ian, I'm sure there's more qualified people here to answer, but I, for
one, agree with your interpretation and I have in fact implemented it just
like that in one of my websites without giving it much thought.

Nevertheless, it would be cool to know if this is breaking some standard.

Martín.

2012/6/26 Ian Yang <ian.html@gmail.com>

> Hi everyone,
>
> On ARIA demonstration websites, role="contentinfo" is usually added on a
> footer element.
>
> However, footers in modern web design<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/08/footers-in-modern-web-design-creative-examples-and-ideas/>can be creative so that they can also contain things like supplementary
> navigation links, social website links, or even a newsletter form.
>
> Taking the following codes of footer for example. Should
> role="contentinfo" be added on the footer or the p element?
>
> <footer>
>     <nav>
>         <ul>
>             ........
>             ........
>             ........
>             ........
>             ........
>         </ul>
>     </nav>
>     <form>
>         ........
>         ........
>         ........
>     </form>
>     <p>© 2012 Website.com. All rights reserved.</p>
> </footer>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Ian Yang
>



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