I was recently told by an automated accessibility test that my
navigation was not up to scratch because it simply consisted of a plain
ul at its highest level. It penalised me for not having a preceding
heading to give some kind of indication of what the ul was about. Now
I've never seen a navigation marked 'navigation', and even in the most
of eccentric sites I've always been correct in the assumption that the
first list of links with category denominations is some kind of
navigation tool.
I'd like to know what people think about that first of all - does
anybody give headings to their navigation?
...But I discovered per chance (this thing didn't have great typographic
semantics!) that the statement regarding headings was a link to an
elaboration on navigation labeling - and it also suggested title
attributes for lists. Now that's interesting.
Does anybody use that? And more to the point, how would this come to
use? Would it be read by screen readers as "unordered list - title -
site navigation"? Is it the case that every tag name, attribute and
property in the markup is pronounced by screen readers?
Regards,
Barney
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