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Re: The importance of landmarks to screen readers?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 30, 2021 2:41AM

Birkir, everything in the specification contradicts your viewpoint. There are statements that the complementary landmark should be at the top level and there are statements that it is at the same level as the main landmark. There is also a statement that it is related to the main landmark, which only makes sense if it is not inside it. There is not a single aspect of the specification or the examples that supports your view that the complementary landmark can be inside the main landmark. You are relying entirely on the bad drafting of the specification, which omits the word MUST where it is clearly the author's intention.

I profoundly hope that the W3C engage professional standards authors for WCAG 3.0 to avoid this sort of nonsense. It's too important to leave to enthusiastic amateurs. The countless discussions we have had in this forum show that there is a massive problem with ambiguity, errors, omissions and contradictions. I think it's amazing that people have given up so much of their time, presumably unpaid, to write the specifications and examples we have had to date, but it's time to improve the quality.

Steve