Bug 157331

Summary:

AX: ARIA 'region' role is now a landmark; HTML 'section' element should be a landmark only if named

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs>

Component:

Accessibility

Assignee:

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

commit-queue, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

WebKit Nightly Build

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

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Joanmarie Diggs

Reported 2016-05-03 16:48:32 PDT

In ARIA 1.1, the 'region' role became a landmark [1]. This has implications for the HTML 'section' element whose default ARIA role is region, namely that potentially a lot of sections will start showing up in the landmark navigation provided by ATs, making that functionality less efficient/useful. The HTML AAM provides guidance related to this [2]: Note: It is strongly recommended that user agents such as screen readers only convey the presence of, and provide navigation for section elements, when the section element has an accessible name. The easiest way to accomplish what the HTML AAM recommends is to not expose sections which lack accessible names as landmarks. [1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#region [2] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#el-section

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