Re: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation

Ryan,

You can reuse the role "navigation" if that is what it is.  Just use ARIA-LABELLEDBY or ARIA-LABEL to indicate the relationship between the list of links are in each navigation bar.

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:13:17 -0700
>From: Ryan Doherty <rdoherty@mozilla.com>  
>Subject: Re: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation  
>To: wai-xtech@w3.org
>
>  Apologies for the spam, somehow my email text was truncated, here is  
>the original message:
>
>I'm adding ARIA landmarks to mozilla.com and I'm confused as how to  
>label secondary navigation elements that are frequently used  
>throughout the site.
>
>Example:
>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html (Products / Firefox  
>menu)
>
>Technically this is navigation, but I will be adding the landmark  
>'navigation' to the top nav, and I don't think it's a good idea to re- 
>use the landmark. I'm not sure it can be considered 'complimentary',  
>can it? Would it remain meaningful if it was separated from the main  
>content?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Ryan Doherty
>rdoherty@mozilla.com
>
>
>On May 15, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Ryan Doherty wrote:
>
>> label secondary navigation elements that are frequently used  
>> throughout the site.
>>
>> Example:
>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html (Products /  
>> Firefox menu)
>>
>> Technically this is navigation, but I will be adding the landmark  
>> 'navigation' to the top nav, and I don't think it's a good idea to  
>> re-use the landmark. I'm not sure it can be considered  
>> 'complimentary', can it? Would it remain meaningful if it was  
>> separated from the main content?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Ryan Doherty
>> rdoherty@mozilla.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>Ryan Doherty
>rdoherty@mozilla.com
>
>
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