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From: John Foliot
Date: Jun 2, 2017 2:38PM

Hi Sandy,

If you are talking about ARIA landmark regions (
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#landmark_roles), there is only a fixed
taxonomy of region terms:

- application
- banner
- complementary
- contentinfo
- form
- main
- navigation
- search

While it would be perhaps interesting to allow for an expansion of those
landmarks (or the ability to create custom ones), we really can't do that
today.

> Would headings with those names be better?

Yes,
absolutely.


However dealing with the "which should come first"
question remains: First-time users should (MUST?) get the instructions
first, but by your 58th log-in I suspect getting those instructions would
be, at a minimum, useless, and at a maximum outright frustrating (with I
suspect a majority being "annoyed"). Not that non-sighted users couldn't
"deal" with always getting instructions first (it *is* trivial to jump
ahead, and as you note the good use of Headings would certainly facilitate
page navigation and orientation).

JF

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Sandy Feldman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Would creating ARIA regions be useful here? Would it be easier to skip the
> instructions and login if instructions were in a region labelled "login
> instructions" and the login was in a region labelled "login"? Would
> headings with those names be better?
>
> Sandy
>
> On 2017-06-02 9:41 AM, John Foliot wrote:
>
> Specific to Joseph's question:
>
> Not seeing the actual design in question, I still will suggest that for
> maximum usability (including sighted keyboard-only users) putting the
> repeat action (Log-In) ahead of the (presumably) one-time, or limited-time
> use of "Instructions" actually makes sense over the aggregate: non-sighted
> users won't need to hear the instructions **every** time they arrive at that
> page, only the first time (or perhaps the first few times - but the log-in
> process will be, and become, a rote activity over time).
>
> (Think of this in terms similar to "skip-nav"... skipping over repeated or
> non-needed content to get to the "meat" of the page in question - here, to
> log-in.
>
>
>


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John Foliot
Principal Accessibility Strategist
Deque Systems Inc.
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