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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 2, 2019 7:45AM

> My view is that it is a violation of 1.3.1 if landmarks are not used or are used incorrectly. In most cases I would expect all page content to be in at least one landmark - there may be exceptions where that is not appropriate but I can't think of any.

Of note the Accessibility Guidelines working group has not created a documented failure for this because experts could not agree that a lack of landmarks was indeed a WCAG failure. Other elements such as headings or text could be used to communicate the visual page structure without requiring all pages to have landmarks. So it really depends on what is communicated visually through presentation and what other elements and text exist on the page.

Jonathan

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My view is that it is a violation of 1.3.1 if landmarks are not used or are used incorrectly. In most cases I would expect all page content to be in at least one landmark - there may be exceptions where that is not appropriate but I can't think of any.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Isabel Holdsworth
Sent: 02 May 2019 10:23
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Subject: [WebAIM] Landmarks

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