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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 14, 2020 11:06AM

For these particular landmarks I don't see the risk, in fact it may be
good to reinforce the HTML5 elements with the appropriate ARIA
landmark attribute.


On 1/14/20, Swift, Daniel P. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I'm a little late getting into landmarks. I have a follow-up question to
> this thread. Is it redundant and unnecessary to include both the landmark
> and the HTML5 element? For example, is there any harm (from a SR
> perspective or otherwise) of using <header role="banner"> or <main
> role="main"> for instance? In my reading, it seems like redundancy is okay,
> but I know that from past experience, having the SR repeat the same things
> multiple times is obviously a bad thing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan Swift
> Senior Web Specialist
> University Communications and Marketing
> West Chester University
> 610.738.0589
>
>