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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: May 2, 2019 3:23AM

Hi all,

I'm currently auditing a web application that uses ARIA landmarks in a
very random fashion.

I've discovered that using landmarks within a dialog causes JAWS 2018
to say nothing but "dialog" when trying to interact with elements
using the virtual cursor and sometimes the Tab key. So I'll recommend
they stop doing this.

On some pages they have a <div role="main"> wrapper around unique page
content, but they're not using header or footer roles. Is it OK to
have some content wrapped in landmarks and the rest not? I know that
ideally if landmarks are to be used at all they should be applied to
the whole page, but would not doing so constitute a WCAG 2.0
violation?

I've found a few banner landmarks inside main landmarks - do you think
this would be a fail? If so under which guideline? 1.3.1 perhaps?

Thanks as always, Isabel