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Re: [External Sender] multiple navigation landmarks

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From: Mallory
Date: Jan 23, 2020 4:46AM

To Wolfgang's point, 1.3.6 mentions programmatically determining regions and to me this includes landmark regions.

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_mallory

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Graham Armfield wrote:
> On Glen's point about keyboard users and landmarks, there are a couple of
> browser extensions that can help sighted keyboard users take advantage of
> the landmarks in a similar way to screen reader users can.
>
> The first one is called Landmarks and is available for Chrome and Firefox.
> The second one is called A11y Outline which I think is only available in
> Firefox.
>
> I wrote a blog post about this a while ago with full instructions for using
> them with keyboards. See
> https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/browser-extensions-deliver-landmark/
>
> They're also useful during accessibility reviews to quickly see what
> landmarks are present on a page.
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
>
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>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 18:12, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Even though landmarks become less useful as the number increases, I would
> > mark any navigational area a <nav aria-label="...">. I consider (personal
> > opinion) a breadcrumb trail a navigational element. The authoring practice
> > defines a breadcrumb trail as "a list of links" and a "breadcrumb trail is
> > contained within a navigation landmark region" (
> > https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#breadcrumb).
> >
> > Landmarks can be used to bypass blocks of elements on the page (at least
> > for screen reader users - would be nice if user agents allowed keyboard
> > users to take advantage of them) but the more landmarks you have, the more
> > they'll have to be navigated through to get to your destination, but I
> > suppose that's only true if you are navigating sequentially through them
> > (NVDA+D or JAWS+R). If you use the landmark/region list in NVDA/JAWS, then
> > you can jump quickly to a specific landmark.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >