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From: Mallory
Date: May 7, 2020 3:12AM

Likely because if your website sells toilet cleaner and you have a message about corona/covid, it's considered by most visitors as a somewhat unrelated topic; at the very least, your home page about the sale on Toilet Duck isn't a corona-health page.

In that sense, aside makes some sense, in that the content isn't really directly related to the general page content. I know lots of people put site or product navigation in asides and there it's not really meant to present as some wholly separate topic, so maybe it depends on how asides are being used on the site already, and also if you have a brick-and-mortar that's physically closed due to corona then it may not seem quite so off-topic if that's the announcement.

But anyway that was my thoughts on the reason.

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, May 6, 2020, at 4:41 AM, Murphy, Sean wrote:
> Why would you use the Aside element and not a section elements with an
> aria-label / aria-labelledby for alerts?
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