{"id":2984,"date":"2015-05-20T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2015-05-20T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:52:11","slug":"html5-structural-elements-web-tip-47-52015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"HTML5 Structural Elements, Web Tip #47, 5\/20\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HTML5 Structural Elements and ARIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HTML5 introduces several new structural elements that will be very beneficial for accessibility: &lt;nav&gt; (for identifying navigational elements), &lt;header&gt; (a group of introductory or navigational aids), &lt;article&gt;, &lt;aside&gt; (tangentially related content, such as a sidebar), and &lt;footer&gt; provide meaning to major page structural areas. These can also be used to enhance keyboard navigation (a user could press the &#8220;N&#8221; key to jump to the page navigation, for example). Many HTML5 structural elements mirror or map to ARIA landmark roles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&lt;article&gt; \u2014 role=&#8221;article&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&lt;footer&gt; \u2014 role=&#8221;contentinfo&#8221; (only one per page)<\/li>\n<li>&lt;header&gt; \u2014 role=&#8221;banner&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&lt;nav&gt; \u2014 role=&#8221;navigation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&lt;aside&gt; \u2014 role=&#8221;complementary&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If transitioning to HTML5, you will want to use both the HTML5 native element and the ARIA role (e.g., &lt;nav role=&#8221;navigation&#8221;&gt;) until assistive technology support for HTML5 improves. Of note is that ARIA provides very useful role=&#8221;search&#8221; and role=&#8221;main&#8221; that do not have HTML5 counterparts. The accessibility of nearly all web pages would be increased if these roles are implemented.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2984\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTML5 Structural Elements and ARIA HTML5 introduces several new structural elements that will be very beneficial for accessibility: &lt;nav&gt; (for identifying navigational elements), &lt;header&gt; (a group of introductory or navigational aids), &lt;article&gt;, &lt;aside&gt; (tangentially related content, such as a sidebar), and &lt;footer&gt; provide meaning to major page structural areas. These can also be used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}