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From: wolfgang.berndorfer@zweiterblick.at
Date: Oct 6, 2020 11:59AM

Thanks Glen for information and clarification.

I agree that a distinction between normative and moral requirements is
necessary. But I'd like to add the requirement of an interpretation of
normative materia, especially when the publishing date is sensitive for the
content.

So what would the authors of SC 1.3.1 have fixed as required, if landmarks
were available in 2008?

On the other hand: Why is there still no explicit requirement? (I didn't
follow the discussions during the development of WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 very
well.)

But probably the WAI list and GitHub would be the right place for such a
discussion.

Wolfgang

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

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.
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