Region Landmark

A region landmark is a perceivable section containing content that is relevant to a specific, author-specified purpose and sufficiently important that users will likely want to be able to navigate to the section easily and to have it listed in a summary of the page.

ARIA 1.2 Specification: region landmark

Design Patterns

• A region landmark must have a label.
• If a page includes more than one region landmark, each should have a unique label.
• The region landmark can be used identify content that named landmarks do not appropriately describe.

Use the HTML section element to define a region landmark.

HTML Example: Using section[aria-labelledby] attribute

Defines a label for each region using existing content on the page.

<main>

<h1>title for main content area<h1>

<section aria-labelledby="region1">

<h2 id="region1" >title for region area 1</h2>

... content for region area 1 ...

</section>

<section aria-labelledby="region2">

<h2 id="region2" >title for region area 2</h2>

... content for region area 2 ...

</section>

</main>

HTML Example: Using section[aria-label] attribute

Defines a label for each region using attribute value that is only visible to assistive technologies.

<main>

<h1>title for main content<h1>

<section aria-label="title for region area 1">

<h2>title for region area 1</h2>

... content for region area 1 ...

</section>

<section aria-label="title for region area 2">

<h2>title for region area 2</h2>

... content for region area 2 ...

</section>

</main>

HTML Example: Using section[title] attribute

Defines a label for each region using attribute value that maybe available as a tooltip on some browsers.

<main>

<h1>title for main content<h1>

<section title="title for region area 1">

<h2>title for region area 1</h2>

...content for region area 1...

</section>

<section title="title for region area 2">

<h2>title for region area 2</h2>

...content for region area 2...

</section>

</main>

A role="region" attribute is used to define a region landmark.

ARIA Example: Using role="region" attribute

<div role="main">

<h1>title for main content area<h1>

<div role="region" aria-labelledby="region1" >
<h2 id="region1" >title for region area 1</h2>

... content for region area 1 ...

</div>

<div role="region" aria-labelledby="region2" >

<h2 id="region2" >title for region area 2</h2>

... content for region area 2 ...

</div>

</div>