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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: Steve Green
Date: Jul 23, 2018 1:02PM

There is a surprisingly difficult balance to be struck when acting on the results of user testing. We aim to:

1. Include features we know will benefit the user groups we tested with.

2. Make sure we don't remove features that might benefit the user groups or people of proficiency levels we didn't test with. As a third party, we don't control the testing budget, so we never get to test with as many people as we would like.

3. Include (or at least not remove) features that might benefit people in the future when user agent support and awareness of accessibility features improve.

4. Not include so many of these features that we create a terrible user experience for some people now.

5. Be aware that proficiency levels vary more than they do for non-disabled people, and take account of the different strategies that people of different proficiency levels use for navigating in and between pages.

There's probably more, but that's plenty to be thinking about.

Steve