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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Dec 11, 2013 7:20AM

Here are the general rules I use:

1. One MAIN landmark per page
2. One BANNER landmark per page (e.g. typically information at the top of the all pages in the website)
3. One CONTENTINFO landmark per page (e.g. typically information at the bottom of all pages in the website)
3. Site navigation links should be in NAVIGATION landmarks (so one maybe more depending on the number of list of links) Typically not nested in other landmarks.
4. Do not nest landmarks of the same type (i.e. do not create another NAVIGATION landmark that inside a NAVIGATION landmark)

See:
http://www.disability.illinois.edu/

Some slides on landmarks from a presentation I gave:
http://presentations.cita.illinois.edu/2013-04-15-web-conference/slide15.html