WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: End of page notification

for

From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Dec 17, 2012 3:27PM

Yes, copyright info is usually at the end of any web page.
But that might be too late in the structure if you have a webpage with multiple <DIV> tags holding various navigation menus, sidebars, advertisements, main content, and footer info (which is where the copyright would be).

In many webpage designs, the main story can be followed by sidebars and ads before hitting the copyright in the footer <DIV>, long after the main story ended.

Going back to Sarah Bourne's recommendation of using <main>, how likely is it that to become a recommended guideline in WCAG? Generally, professional websites are built around CSS and DIV, but I've seen developers name the DIV that holds the main story any of a dozen names, including <main-content>, <content>, <story>, <main-story>, etc. We'd have to have W3C/WCAG guidelines specifically state that the main story on a webpage should be in a div named <main>.

And then the AT manufacturers would need to build in functionality when reading that tag, specifically the </main> closing tag.

It's a good suggestion worth pursuing, but I expect it would require getting both the web development community and AT manufacturers to agree to this, as well as W3C and WAI.



—Bevi Chagnon
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
www.PubCom.com — Trainers, Consultants, Designers, Developers.
Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508 Accessibility.
New schedule for classes and workshops coming this fall and winter.
— It's our 31st year! —