RE: Keyboard controls for landmarks

Sailesh Panchang wrote:
"Even a lay user not familiar with HTML coding  quickly finds out  the
landmark names main / search / navigation etc. as one navigates by landmark
and the screen reader exposes these names.
Now how does a non-AT user (sighted keyboard user) identify the landmmark
names if the user agent permitted navigation by landmarks?"

There would need to be some kind of visible indication. It may be that focus
is taken to the first focusable item within the landmark region, and the
keyboard focus indicator would do the trick.


Léonie.

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	-----Original Message-----
From: Sailesh Panchang [mailto:sailesh.panchang@deque.com] 
Sent: 08 April 2013 03:25
To: Patrick H. Lauke
Cc: WAI Interest Group
Subject: Re: Keyboard controls for landmarks

Exposing landmark names:
Even a lay user not familiar with HTML coding  quickly finds out  the
landmark names main / search / navigation etc. as one navigates by landmark
and the screen reader exposes these names.
Now how does a non-AT user (sighted keyboard user) identify the landmmark
names if the user agent permitted navigation by landmarks?
This user will see the various sections of the page and might want to
navigate to search form or right side complementary section.
How will he know it is called the main or complementary section?

Sailesh


On 4/7/13, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
> On 07/04/2013 16:20, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>> they don't expose the aria role as an attribute in the DOM, its not 
>> how it works.
>
> As a developer, I'd actually find that sort of thing useful. Any 
> reason why not? For instance, 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.
>
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