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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Feb 16, 2018 12:50AM

Hi all, here is a reference for how <section> is mapped in browser
accessibility APIs

region <https://w3c.github.io/core-aam/#role-map-region> role if the section
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-section-element>; element
> has an accessible name
> <https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/#dfn-accessible-name>. Otherwise, no
> corresponding role.


https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/#el-section


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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>;

On 15 February 2018 at 20:46, Carly Gerard < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Our institution is using SiteImprove as well, and finding that is also our
> biggest error are these false positives of <section> not having an
> accessible name--even though there's a <main> tag one or two two elements
> up. I'm glad this discussion came up and feel a little better about
> addressing that.
>
> > From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of
> Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:30:16 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] labeling sections
>
> Yes, it was flagged in Siteimprove.
>
>