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From: wolfgang.berndorfer@zweiterblick.at
Date: Oct 6, 2020 4:28AM

A plead for usability awareness:

I couldn't find out, what OCD stands for, but I know the abbreviation UX.

2.4.1 has purely usability in mind. 11 keyboard strokes don't make a webpage
inaccessible stricte dictum. They make it just annoying.

So let's not only reflect the "skip links" to satisfy the required effort to
pass 2.4.1. Let's point out, what can be done to improve UX for AT: Headings
and regions.

"Although this Success Criterion deals with blocks of content that are
repeated on multiple pages, we also strongly promote structural markup on
individual pages as per Success Criteria 1.3.1. "
(https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-skip.html)

Besides: An accordion mechanism would fit too, to pass SC 2.4.1. Correct?

Wolfgang


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Bypass blocks for a small website

I was going to say (almost) the same thing as Birkir. 2.4.1 just says a
"mechanism" is available to bypass blocks. If your mechanism is to
autofocus to main, that technically passes.

Whether that's a good idea from a UX perspective is a different discussion.

However, regarding landmarks, I'm a bit OCD when it comes to normative vs
non-normative. Birkir said ARIA *required* landmarks. Where is that
stated? We all know the first rule of ARIA is to not use ARIA (
https://www.w3.org/TR/aria-in-html/#rule1) and that ARIA "is intended to
provide missing semantics so that the intent of the author may be conveyed
to assistive technologies" (https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#ua-support).
If we focus on using native HTML instead of ARIA, then it seems like the
<main> element would be a required element, but it's not. I get a little
nervous when we use the term "required" unless I can find the reference in a
normative doc.

Feel free to slap me down, Birkir, if I missed something regarding the
requirement of landmarks. That's what's great about this WebAIM forum, I'm
always learning something new no matter how long I've been doing it.
http://webaim.org/discussion/archives