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From: Maraikayar Prem Nawaz
Date: Mar 25, 2021 12:23AM

The frequent use of landmarks and regions has continually decreased from
43.8% in 2014, to 38.6% in 2015, to 30.5% in 2017, to 26.6% on this survey.
It's difficult to know the reasons for this. It could be due to infrequent
or improper usage of landmarks/regions in pages. Or perhaps because other
mechanisms are continually better.
https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/#landmarks
Browsing by headings has a huge acceptance than landmarks.


On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 7:09 PM Andrews, David B (DEED) <
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> This site did have a log of regions!
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> I don't know what it is like visually, but when you arrow through, using
> JAWS, versus tabbing through, they are quite different experiences.
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