Implement WAI ARIA landmark roles in default template files

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Landmarks are a vast improvement over the rudimentary “skip to main 
content” technique employed prior to WAI-ARIA. If possible it is best to use 
these as landmarks. The presence of common, semantic, navigation landmarks 
allows each site to support the same standard and allows your assistive 
technology to provide a consistent navigation experience.

Implementing ARIA landmark roles in a child theme requires overriding 
index.php, page.php and other template files. Child themes could be a lot 
simpler if this was implemented in the default templates.

For more information see: 
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/10/using-wai-aria-landmark-roles/

Aria Landmark roles are already implemented in many other themes (e.g. twenty 
ten).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peter.kr...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 3:10

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A patch that implements the basic roles; main, contentinfo, search, banner in 
the current version.

Original comment by peter.kr...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 3:51

Attachments:

• wai-aria-roles.patch

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If Thematic's doctype changes this may be considered. Thanks

Original comment by eugene.m...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2012 at 8:37

• Changed state: WontFix
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• Removed labels: Type-Defect