Re: Keyboard controls for landmarks

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> it would make writing browser extensions that, say, jump to anything with
> role="main" (either defined as such in HTML, or given automatically by the
> browser, such as a <main> element), trivially easy to implement.
>

If it isn't something you can target with JS it raises the bar for creating
a UI to those people/companies who know how to access the system level API
(I assume).

The lack of access (ahem) to landmarks / HTML5 semantics / roles could be
holding things back from a UI point of view, especially for
non-screenreader users.