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Re: headings on navigation lists

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jan 22, 2010 7:42AM

Here is a best practice:

http://html.cita.illinois.edu/nav/menu/

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:23:41 -0700
>From: Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] headings on navigation lists
>To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Is there a best practice for including some sort of heading on navigation lists?
>
>I assume you mean some sort of heading that says, "Navigation" or
>"Main Navigation" or similar that is presented just before the
>navigation links, correct? If so, my opinion is that if they aren't
>necessary visually to identify the navigation on the page, why should
>they be necessary to someone that cannot see the page?
>
>I do understand that they might provide some utility in jumping
>quickly to navigation (though much less so if you're actually using a
>true list for your navigation links), but they also come with a lot of
>overhead. Screen reader users generally understand that the bunch of
>links near the beginning of the page are the navigation, just like
>sighted users understand this.
>
>You can, however, greatly facilitate navigation navigation (see what I
>did there?) by adding ARIA landmark roles.
>
>Jared Smith
>WebAIM
>