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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 17, 2013 12:54PM

I think that landmarks are fine but ARIA is primarily intended for dynamic content. There comes a point when adding more semantic markup actually starts to reduce the accessibility because the 'noise' gets in the way of the content. I would therefore reserve the use of ARIA for dynamic content, and even then only when it is actually needed. Some well-designed dynamic content does not need it.

I think there is already an obvious implicit relationship between a heading and its container, and that aria-labelledby is really intended for use where relationships are not obvious or implicit.

Steve