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Re: Visibly hidden headings to label regions and landmarks

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 1, 2020 5:49PM

Technically, landmarks and headings are two different things:
* A landmark describes areas of the page (or screen), regardless of content
* A heading labels and describes the structure of the content on the page
Ideally users should be able to navigate successfully by either.
Unfortunately, labeled regions are spoken in context of navigation,
thus making heading navigation irritatingly verbose.

Keep in mind that landmarks only need accessible names if there are
multiple instances of the same landmark region on the page (banner,
main and contentinfo should never have an accessible name).

There is no strong WCAG SC that governs this scenario, (other than
4.1.2 if a landmark region requires an accessible name, you can look
that up in the landmark roles section of the ARIA spec).
It's been a 12-hour day so I just can't bother looking it up in the
spec today, though I might be able to muster up the courage tomorrow.
For each role definition, look in the characteristics table at the
bottom of the definition and see if it has an accessible name required
entry.


On 9/1/20, Murphy, Sean < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> From a screen reader point of view. I see this as screen noise. If I have a
> region with the exact name as the heading, which is the next line. Then
> there is no added value due to both elements are page section components.
> This is over usage of aria when it is not required.
>
>
> If it actually fails a SC. This time of morning, I cannot recall our
> internal discussions on this point. As we have had them. My guidance is to
> use one or the other. As you don't need to have headings on a page if they
> are visually design that way. If you have headings visually designed, then
> you don't need the region section.
>
> Sean
>
> Regards
> Sean Murphy
>
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