ARIA Landmarks: Fencing Your Digital Acreage
Without landmarks, a screen reader user sees your website as one enormous undifferentiated field. ARIA landmarks and semantic HTML create the fences, gates, and signposts that make navigation possible.
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Without landmarks, a screen reader user sees your website as one enormous undifferentiated field. ARIA landmarks and semantic HTML create the fences, gates, and signposts that make navigation possible.
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