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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Dec 16, 2014 11:13AM

On 16 December 2014 at 17:08, Jukka K. Korpela < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Bottom line: <nav> is useless for most practical purposes.


<nav> is useful for a practical purpose, it is exposed as a navigation
landmark in most browsers and is presented as part of the interactive aural
UI to screen reader users. (i.e. its announced to users and users can
navigate to it using the keyboard)

related info about ARIA landmarks (which HTML5 nav/header/footer/aside/main
elements are mapped to in browsers)
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/02/using-wai-aria-landmarks-2013/

accessibility layer implementation of HTML elements in browsers
http://stevefaulkner.github.io/html-mapping-tests/



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SteveF
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