On 23 January 2016 at 18:10, Mike Elledge <melledge@yahoo.com> wrote: > So would the appropriate way for a screen reader to respond be to state > "Section X" followed by "heading level one" in a flat H1 scenario? > > This doesn't seem like rocket science; why hasn't it been implemented by > browsers? > Section elements are not reported unless that have an explicit accessible name, as the unfettered announcement of <section> elements was found to cause verbosity problems for users as developers overuse <section> elements, often using them instead of <div>s. -- Regards SteveF Current Standards Work @W3C <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>
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