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Re: html5 and ARIA landmark roles

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From: Paul Adam
Date: Nov 18, 2015 1:30PM

I always add the ARIA landmark roles for these reasons. VoiceOver does not support all the HTML5 section elements implicit roles in OS X and iOS.

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

> On Nov 18, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am seeing different browser/AT combinations treat pages with html5 elements differently. For example with FireFox, JAWS16, shows header="banner", while IE does not. Same with footer and other elements.
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> Joseph
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