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From: glen walker
Date: Oct 6, 2020 10:45AM

Sorry, Wolfgang. OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder. It could be
considered a "hidden" disability and like many disabilities, can have a
wide range or spectrum of intenseness.

I was using the term in referring to myself in that when talking about
what's "required" by accessibility, I get very nit-picky about normative vs
non-normative statements. I was not short-coming best practices but I
think it's important to distinguish between what's really required from a
normative perspective vs what's a best practice from a non-normative
perspective. Sometimes legal implications can ride on the difference. I
always encourage best practices and hopefully companies are focusing on the
full UX and not just a checklist of what's required legally.

So wrapping this back to Birkir's comment about landmarks being required, I
have not found anything normative that says this. Are landmarks helpful?
Absolutely. Should every page have at least a main landmark, and probably
a header and footer landmark? Absolutely. Is it required? No, at least
not with my understanding of the normative requirements. I'm certainly
open to changing my mind if I've missed something in the reams of
documentation out there.