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Re: Hidden headings with aria-labelledby or just aria-label best for for labelling landmark regions?

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jul 23, 2018 9:37AM

Has anybody tested support for aria-label versus aria-labelledby for
landmark regions? That may also help in deciding between these two
approaches. I'd think both are pretty thoroughly supported by now, but, if
there was any difference, I'd imagine aria-labelledby might have less
support, since it is very slightly more complicated.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:20 AM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > . I have not added visually hidden headings for the sole purpose of
> being the label for the landmark.
>
> I'm assuming authors do this to support users who may navigate by heading
> and not landmarks -- but they also associate them to benefit people who
> navigate by landmarks. I'm not commenting on whether this is good or bad
> -- but just a guess on why authors do this. My understanding is that
> many users navigate by heading rather than landmark from looking at the
> WebAIM screen reader user survey.
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