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Re: order of nesting when using ARIA and html 5

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From: Angela French
Date: Jun 4, 2013 1:00PM

Would it suffice then to just use the ARIA role and skip the html5 structural elements? Are there any "cons" for doing so?

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>Just use <footer role="contentinfo"> and remove the extraneous <div>.
>Because the native role and the ARIA role are identical on the same element,
>this removes any redundancy.
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>Related - http://tink.co.uk/2013/04/screen-readers-aria-html5-too-much-
>information/
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>Jared
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