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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Dec 17, 2014 3:13AM

2014-12-16, 20:13, Steve Faulkner wrote:

> On 16 December 2014 at 17:08, Jukka K. Korpela < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> 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)

This may be relevant in the long run and even now to a small fraction of
users, but it is just exposed information that browsers and assistive
software *may* using.

As far as I can see, the exposed information is just the ARIA attribute
role=navigation. Thus the same can be achieved (better) by using <div
role=navigation>...</div> instead of <nav>...</nav>, right?

Yucca