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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: glen walker
Date: Jul 23, 2018 12:39PM

Good stuff, Steve, and thank you for caveating your results of landmarks
(#4) by saying that your results don't mean we shouldn't use them.

The same is true for skip links (#1), although your results were qualified
by screen reader users. As a keyboard user, I use skip links quite often.


On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Steve Green <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Of the participants who have expressed an opinion, every one of them
> expects the <h1> to be at the top of the main content - they really don't
> care if it is preceded by lower heading levels. Behaviours I have observed
> over 14 years of user testing include:
>
> 1. Very few screen reader users use skip links even when they are provided
> and work correctly. Most people never even hear them because the screen
> reader goes into SayAll mode when a page loads, and they just stop it and
> start navigating from wherever it stopped.
>
> 2. Very few screen reader users use the number keys to jump directly to an
> <h1>. Almost all press the H key repeatedly till they hear the <h1>. This
> is only slightly less efficient and it's slightly easier to find the H key
> than the 1 key.
>
> 3. Consistency of structure within a page and between pages is far more
> important than perfect nesting of headings.
>
> 4. I have not seen anyone navigate by landmarks. With the exception of
> "obvious" landmarks such as main and navigation, most people don't know
> what the landmarks are for. As such, they are regarded as noise. That's not
> to say we shouldn't use them, but at the moment they are not understood
> well enough to be useful.
>
> Steve
>