NVDA does not recognize the region landmark role (even when it is a valid ARIA role)

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Reported by Birkirrg on 2013-12-31 14:56
Occasionally none of the standard landmark roles applies to a section of a webpage. It may still be appropriate to give it a landmark and for that purpose the region role is appropriate (see W3C ARIA specs where role is a valid ARIA tag), Div with role="region" and an aria-label can be very useful. NVDA, however, does not recognize "region" as a landmark role and does not announce it or its aria-label property. The information is available in the browser doms, at least for IE and Firefox, and is announced by some other assistive technologies.
Blocked by #1195

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Comment 1 by jteh on 2014-01-07 01:08
According to the ARIA spec, region isn't actually considered a landmark (its superclass role is not landmark), so mapping it to landmarks is controversial and perhaps a spec violation. Do other ATs jump to role="region" elements when you navigate by landmark?

See also #1195.

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Comment 3 by bgaraventa on 2014-02-09 01:53
Hi,
The feedback typically conveyed in JAWS for example is to announce the name of the region and the word region at the beginning of the content, then to announce the region name followed by the wording region end at the end of the content.

The value of this, is that it clearly defines the boundaries of a region, which is very helpful for menus, dialogs, popups, and other types of content where it may be unclear where one section starts versus another.

E.G

Dialog content here

Which then sounds like the following in JAWS:

Dialog region
Dialog content here
Dialog region end

Which can be quickly moved to by pressing 'r' to jump between defined regions.

Hopefully this helps.

Best wishes,
Bryan

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Comment 4 by jteh on 2014-02-19 07:21
Changes:
Milestone changed from None to next

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Comment 5 by jteh on 2014-02-19 07:21
This work will be based on the code for #1195.

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Comment 6 by James Teh <jamie@... on 2014-02-20 06:52
In [41e2ffc]:

Merge branch 't3741' into next

Incubates #3741.

Changes:
Added labels: incubating

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Comment 7 by James Teh <jamie@... on 2014-03-18 18:39
In [28a1b81]:

In browse mode, labelled regions are now treated as landmarks.

Fixes #3741.

Changes:
Removed labels: incubating
State: closed

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Comment 8 by jteh on 2014-03-18 18:40
Changes:
Milestone changed from next to 2014.2