[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30589: Comments navigation template tags

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#30589: Comments navigation template tags
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 Reporter:  obenland     |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.2
Component:  Themes       |     Version:  4.1
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:  template
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Comment (by afercia):

 We quickly discussed this in the Accessibility team meeting yesterday, our
 concern is about 2 different issues:

 1.
 the total number of navigation landmarks in a typical page.
 This should be raised in a separate ticket but just consider e.g. Twenty
 Fifteen with one main menu, one social menu, a few widgets in the
 sidebar... there would be 13-14 landmarks, with nested landmarks '''and 5
 navigation landmarks'''. See screenshots:
 https://cldup.com/n6o4tdWKr3.png
 and
 https://cldup.com/VzDECLO8uL.png
 Just too many landmarks.

 2.
 The usage of a `nav` element for comments navigation. There's some debate
 about this, we're open to discussion but please consider what the
 specification says:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-nav-element
 Note: Not all groups of links on a page need to be in a nav element — the
 element is primarily intended for sections that consist of major
 navigation blocks.

 What is "major" is matter of discussion of course. Specifically for
 comments, they're a secondary content by definition. Whether you consider
 them a "section" or an "aside", they're related to the main content but
 they're not the main content. Thus, a ''secondary'' content having a
 navigation with a semantic meaning of ''major'' doesn't look right to me.
 As I said there are different opinions, we're open to discussion and we'd
 really appreciate everyone's feedback, I'd just like to quote Mr. Bruce
 Lawson:

  You need to ask yourself why you’re marking something up as nav. I do it
 to help users of assistive technology easily find important navigation, eg
 site-wide stuff. If you mark up every link that goes somewhere in the site
 as nav, it’s harder for such users to find the really important stuff.

 -- http://html5doctor.com/avoiding-common-html5-mistakes/#comment-16949

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