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Re: Unaware of sitemap due to forced focus

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From: wolfgang.berndorfer
Date: Feb 10, 2021 8:16AM

> A user would reach these particular dynamic web pages via a link from another part of the site and the SR focus would land on the h1, which is below the sitemap.

Surely it is no good idea to move away the focus initially away from the top with very few exceptions (log-in page, search engine home page)

> The sitemap does have a navigation region tag, and I'm going to suggest that they change this to a sitemap region tag.

What is a sitemap region tag? Do you mean:
<nav aria-label="sitemap">

IMO <footer> or <aside> would not have a similar precision for the role of a sitemap.

Wolfgang