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Re: Explicit association with <header> required/recommended for <article>?

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Feb 5, 2018 11:24AM

Also, with VoiceOver on Macintosh Articles can be blocks that need to be
interacted with in at least "Group Navigation" mode. If they are not given
a label than VoiceOver will just say "article".
Thanks,

Jonathan Cohn

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 12:32 PM Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> So, checking in JAWS 18, CTRL+Insert+R brings up a list of regions on the
> page. If you have labelled your region by pointing aria-labelledby to the
> id for the heading, then the article is listed with that name. Otherwise,
> it just says article, even if you have a heading in the article.
> Basically, it must be explicitly named.
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I guess you're right. A header could contain content other than a
> > heading. So does the accessible name for the article automatically get
> > populated with the highest heading level it contains then?
> >
> > My use case is if the user wants to have navigate amongst multiple
> > articles on a page without diving into the contents of each. If there
> are
> > multiple nav elements on a page, you would need to label them to enable
> the
> > user to quickly jump to the one that is most relevant. In the same
> sense,
> > wouldn't you want to label articles? Actually, I don't even remember if
> > any screen readers provide affordances for jumping between or listing
> > articles, per se, but, if they did, I'd think this would be useful.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:09 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> I think you mean heading, not header.
> >>
> >> Headers are repeating elements at the top of something, such as a page
> >> header or table header.
> >>
> >> The Article tag's definition is that it designates a self-contained
> >> portion of a larger document. It is a grouping or container tag that
> >> encompasses, by definition, other tagged elements such as P and Hx tags.
> >>
> >> To me, the relationship is already explicit because the Hx tag is within
> >> the Article tag.
> >>
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