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From: Steve Green
Date: May 2, 2019 7:59AM

The absence of landmarks is certainly not the most serious of accessibility barriers, but landmarks have the advantage that they convey both the start and end of sections of content, which headings do not.

Page headers and footers are usually conveyed visually in a totally unambiguous manner. SC 1.3.1 requires that this structure is conveyed programmatically, and landmarks are the best way to do that. In fact, how else would you do so? I struggle to see how this cannot be a non-compliance.

Steve