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

Hi Martin, thanks for your opinion.

Ian

2012/6/26 Martín Szyszlican <martinsz@gmail.com>

> 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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