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Landmark Navigation

Also known as: Navigate by Landmarks, ARIA Landmark Navigation

A screen reader navigation strategy that allows users to jump between major structural regions of a webpage defined by ARIA landmark roles (banner, navigation, main, complementary, contentinfo, search, form) or their equivalent HTML5 semantic elements. Landmark navigation enables screen reader users to quickly move to major page sections without traversing all intermediate content. Effective landmark navigation requires developers to properly implement ARIA roles or use semantic HTML elements like nav, main, aside, header, and footer.

Category: Web Accessibility · Assistive Technology

Related: Heading Navigation · Sequential Navigation · Screen Reader · WAI-ARIA · Semantic HTML

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