Michael,
Regions and Landmarks are designed to give structure to the page for screen reader users.
You do not need to embed landmarks within landmarks. Just use only one that describes the most obvious and logical function of the area and or content.
Perhaps something like this image will help?
Alan Smith
From: Michael A. Peters
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 5:51 PM
To: W3C WAI-IG
Subject: Re: AInspector and Landmark Roles
Okay first two issues I was able to solve via aria-label but I am still
trying to figure out how to solve the third.
On 11/10/2017 02:20 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Hello List,
>
*snip*
>
> Issue 3 - on some pages, I use an aside element that is child of a
> section element that is child or article that is child of main.
>
> The use is appropriate for aside, it seems that aside automatically is
> given a complementary role and then AInspector says complementary role
> must be top level. But the aside is content related to the section that
> contains it, so it belongs in the section that contains it.
>
> Is there a solution?
>
> Thank you for suggestions.
