Re: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation

This is the proper markup using ARIA:

<div role="navigation" aria-labelledby="nav1">
<h2 id="nav1">main menu</h2>
...
</div>

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 23:44:11 +0200
>From: "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>  
>Subject: Re: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation  
>To: "Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com>, sailesh.panchang@deque.com, "Ryan Doherty" <rdoherty@mozilla.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org
>
>On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:23:00 +0200, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
>>> I thought there was a way to name landmarks already: using one of the
>>> <h1>-<h6> elements.
>
>> Do you mean by embeding landmarks inside headings?
>>
>
>No, by placing a heading in the landmark.
>
>   <div role="navigation">
>    <h2>main menu</h2>
>    ...
>   </div>
>
>I looked briefly at the ARIA spec and didn't find anything about this, so I was probably wrong. However, I think it's the logical thing to use and it would be nice if the association would just work.
>
>(In HTML5, the <nav> element creates a section, and the outline algorithm will associate an <hgroup> or <h1>-<h6> element with the section, if there is one.)
>
>-- 
>Simon Pieters
>Opera Software
>
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