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Re: screen reader support for <nav> vs role="navigation"

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From: Angela French
Date: Jun 30, 2017 2:19PM

That has been my approach until I needed to do some research and came across resources like this:

http://accessibility.psu.edu/arialand/
https://dequeuniversity.com/assets/html/jquery-summit/html5/slides/landmarks.html

This matrix (http://www.html5accessibility.com/) shows partial support for <nav> in IE. Does that then justify <nav role="navigation">
Even the W3.org website shows examples of using both: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_HTML5_nav_element#Example:The_.3Cnav.3E_element

I'm just trying to get a feel for current screen reader support of <nav>

Angela French
SBCTC