Bug 157331 – AX: ARIA 'region' role is now a landmark; HTML 'section' element should be a landmark only if named

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Accessibility

[Joanmarie Diggs]

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

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/26078217>

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Created attachment 278047 [details]
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[Joanmarie Diggs]

Created attachment 278065 [details]
Patch

[chris fleizach]

Comment on attachment 278065 [details]
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looks good!

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 278065 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 278065

Committed r200415: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/200415>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.