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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