The page header is nested inside another region

Automated check landmark-banner-is-top-level, run with axe-core

WCAG

Best practice: a recommendation, not a WCAG success criterion

Severity

Moderate: a degraded experience

Typical effort

Quick win, under 1 hour

Category

Page structure

Who this affects

Screen reader users navigating by page regions.

Why it matters

A header region inside another region muddles the page outline, so jumping to the header lands in the wrong place.

How to fix it

Move the site <header> out of <main>, <aside> and other regions so it sits at the top level.

Related checks: Page structure

• The page has no title
• Headings contain no text
• Iframes have no title
• Several frames share the same title
• Heading levels are skipped or out of order
• The page does not declare its language
• The declared page language is not valid
• The lang and xml:lang attributes disagree

All checks