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Re: Visibly hidden headings to label regions and landmarks

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From: David Engebretson Jr.
Date: Sep 1, 2020 6:38PM

I think using region naming and a visibly hidden heading directly after the region naming as a great way to make sure that folks who navigate by headings, and folks who navigate by regions, will get equal structural information as to the regions that make up the web page.

It might be "noisy" to a screen reader user who is navigating by arrow keys but I don't think, and the screen reader survey seems to agree statistically, that all screen reader users navigate pages in the same way. Personally I know that regions should give me a quick glimpse of the visual sections of the page and headings should give me context to the textual content of the page, but I don't think most of us screen reader users are as savvy as those of us in the web accessibility field.

The more opportunity for equal access the better, in my opinion.

Best,
David