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Re: Visibly hidden headings to label regions and landmarks

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From: Vaibhav Saraf
Date: Sep 2, 2020 5:08AM

>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
So this actually looks to be a good idea from user experience point of
view. Also this piece of knowledge is fascinating to me, what I first
learnt was to navigate through landmarks.

Thanks all for the insights!!



On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 15:46, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >