- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 19:17:36 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 07/05/2019 19:00, Lisa Louise Davis (Aquent LLC) wrote: > Greetings, colleagues! I would appreciate your viewpoint on landmarks > and *1.3.1 Info and relationships*. > > I understand why landmarks are not required by this success criterion, > as other techniques could be used to programmatically communicate the > regions of a page. > > However, what if a landmark is not implemented as specified in the > WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 > <https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#aria_landmark>? > > Some examples: > > * A page has two main landmarks. > * The main landmark contains banner and contentinfo landmarks. > * A page has multiple navigation landmarks, and they do not have > unique labels. > * A page’s primary content is contained in a “Getting started” region > (an HTML5 section element that uses the page’s <h1> element as its > label). > > In your opinion, which – if any – of these examples constitute failures > of 1.3.1? Personally, I'm not sure if I'd necessarily hard-fail these situations, but I'd mention them as best practice recommendations under 1.3.1 (and/or possibly 4.1.2, though strictly that one is more for interactive components/widgets - but I admit to sometimes sneaking in some ARIA specific things there) P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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