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Re: Visibly hidden headings to label regions and landmarks

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 2, 2020 4:16AM

Our (admittedly limited) user testing backs that up, which is why I
only focus on marking header, main and footer as landmarks, rest is,
well, technically nice but practically doesn't do much, and too many
landmarks are confusing in any case.

On 9/2/20, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> That's been my experience in our user testing. I am certain no one has ever
> used regions to navigate and I don't even remember people commenting on
> them. I suspect they are only used by the top few percent of the most
> proficient and technologically aware screen reader users, but we
> intentionally exclude people like that from most of our user testing
> projects.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
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