Discussion Issues with Landmark ARIA Documentation

I tried implementing ARIA landmarks for codetalks.org to create a real world
example.  Here are a few issues for discussion that came up.

 

1.       W3C document says landmark contentinfo applies to immediate
ancestor whose role is not presentation.   If you take the code talks page
this is not valid.  The footer is a child of something called globalWrapper.
The contentinfo is actually related to the node with id=content.  I think it
would be more logical and accurate to state that contentinfo corresponds to
content that is marked with role=main.  Is there any other scenario where
the contentinfo would not be referring to the main content on the page?



2.       The Best Practices document says that every region MUST have a
label.  I think contentinfo, search and navigation landmarks should only be
required to be uniquely identified if there is more than one.  This would be
similar to Section 508 1194.22 (i) that requires frames to be titled to
facilitate identification and navigation.  If there is only one landmark
contentinfo, search, or navigation then it is uniquely labeled and navigable
and should not require additional work.  

 

3.       The Best Practices document shows setting a div tag with a title
attribute to identify the element.   Is this equivalent to providing a
header?  Current testing with JAWS does not show support for reading the
title attribute of a div.  

 

Code example 
<div role="complementary" title="weather">  

 

4.       The BP document also shows using aria-labelledby on an element to
point to the header of a region.  I don't understand why the header content
can't be required to be the first element under the region.  
Code example from document
<p role="main" aria-labelledby="hdr1"> 
<div role="header" id="hdr1">  
Top News Stories
</div>
</p> 

Code example from web today
<p role="main">
<h2>Top News Stories</h2>
</p>

Using the existing html markup seems more intuitive.  I'm also not sure why
the example in the document uses <p> tag instead of <div>  What am I
missing?



 

Reference codetalks.org Website

http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Note you must be logged out of the site to use the landmarks.  Only the
theme for non logged in users currently has role support

 

Reference ARIA Best Practices

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/