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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: May 2, 2019 8:25AM

I kind of feel like either use them correctly or not at all. Does this
seem a reasonable enough approach?

Steve, you make a very good point about landmarks denoting the end as
well as the start, which mechanisms such as H1 headings and skip links
can't do.

Cheers, Isabel

On 02/05/2019, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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.
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> Steve
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