RE: Would incorrectly implemented landmarks constitute a WCAG failure?

Hi Patrick,

I am interested in the notion of a 'hard' versus what is presumably a 'soft' failure of this or that success criterion ... are there any heuristics or general principles that you apply to arrive at one or the other? 

In my experience, recommendations of any sort rarely make the cut when decisions about what to fix are being made  (though I do operate in a very compliance-driven context)

Cheers,
Adam 


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 4:18 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Would incorrectly implemented landmarks constitute a WCAG failure?

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
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