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landmark
A region of a page with a declared role: header, nav, main, footer, aside. Screen readers use landmarks to jump between regions, so a page with no main landmark forces a reader through everything.
What landmark means
A region of a page with a declared role: header, nav, main, footer, aside. Screen readers use landmarks to jump between regions, so a page with no main landmark forces a reader through everything. They are structural, cost nothing, and are absent on a surprising share of pages that pass a contrast check.
What landmark can and cannot support
| It can support | It cannot support |
|---|---|
| A region of a page with a declared role: header, nav, main, footer, aside. Screen readers use landmarks to jump between regions, so a page with no main landmark forces a reader through everything. | They are structural, cost nothing, and are absent on a surprising share of pages that pass a contrast check. |
Where landmark comes up on this site
- Accessibility from the delivered HTML: nine things a screen reader needs before contrast mattersExactly one main landmark.
Terms this definition uses
Definitions that name landmark
accessibility structure · landmark region
Related terms in Accessibility and provenance
What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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Questions about landmark
What is landmark?
A region of a page with a declared role: header, nav, main, footer, aside. Screen readers use landmarks to jump between regions, so a page with no main landmark forces a reader through everything.
What does landmark not show or guarantee?
They are structural, cost nothing, and are absent on a surprising share of pages that pass a contrast check.
Which area of the glossary does landmark belong to?
Accessibility and provenance: What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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