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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: Jul 23, 2020 6:43AM

With recent releases of JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver and recent releases of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, is there any benefit from doubling up with code like <nav role="navigation"> or <footer role="contentinfo"> or even <form="form" >? Are there (still) some popular screen reader-browser combinations, perhaps on mobile devices, that benefit from having both HTML5 elements and also the ARIA roles? (I mean, of course, just in those cases where you do have equivalence.) Is there a downside to doubling up?
Thanks,
Alan

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