The header element of the page template of the Seven theme is marked up with a redundant [role="navigation"] ARIA landmark. The role of the header isn't navigation. It's a container. It can contain breadcrumbs, which are correctly marked up as [role="navigation"].

Screenshot of the Chrome dev tools showing the role=navigation attribute on the header element of the seven themes page template

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#1 redundant-role-navigation-2047061-1.patch1.03 KBjessebeach
Screenshot of the Chrome dev tools showing the role=navigation attribute on the header element of the seven themes page template34.4 KBjessebeach

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jessebeach commented
Status: Active » Needs review
Issue tags: +Accessibility, +TwinCities
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new redundant-role-navigation-2047061-1.patch1.03 KB

This patch removes the redundant [role=navigation] attribute.

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Code looks good, works as advertised.

Looks good to me!

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This makes sense to me.

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oops.

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed 51efbbf and pushed to 8.x. Thanks!

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Issue tags: +Spark

Adding Spark tag for tracking.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.