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

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Date: Jun 30, 2017 2:35PM

The information on html5accessibility.com is accurate. You only need to
apply the roles explicitly if you need to support IE. If you don't, then
you can just use the relevant HTML elements.

Léonie.
On 30/06/2017 20:48, Angela French wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been web searching without luck to find which method has better screen reader support for identifying menus on a web page: using the html 5 <nav> element or using the ARIA attribute role="navigation" on say, a <div>. If I combine their use like <nav role="navigation">, Siteimprove tells me I'm being redundant. I suppose there are worse accessibility
> "crimes" that being redundant?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Angela French
> Internet/Intranet Specialist
> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> 360-704-4316
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