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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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> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:38:39 +0100, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> Should developers add ARIA roles to html5 elements with default roles,
>> like nav, main, header(banner), footer(contentinfo)? My testing shows
>> different treatment of the html5 elements between various browsers and
>> AT combinations.
>
> Do you mean that a given browser/AT combination treats the HTML element differently from the way it treats that element if it also has the role specified, or that different browser/AT combos treat elements differently, or both?
>
> Are your test results available?
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
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