Clarification on the banner role not being at the top of a page

[MrHBS]

Given a left sidebar that seems to match the description of a header (as banners ie), would it be semantically correct to wrap the left sidebar with a header, even though it is not at the top of the page?

Example:
https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/

[pkra]

You will likely get a more useful response on a general web accessibility forum such as the WebAIM mailing list or web-a11y slack.

This issue tracker is for question related to the ARIA specification and its implementations.

FWIW, I'd say it depends. Yes, the banner role is especially important for situations where it's not possible to use a header element. Whether the react-icons page is a good example is a different question.

[pkra]

Thanks for posting the same question to https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message?id=49193

I'm sure you'll get a better response there.