Page regions cannot be told apart

Automated check landmark-unique, 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

Two navigation menus both announced as "navigation" force the user to explore both to find the one they want.

How to fix it

Give repeated regions distinct labels, for example <nav aria-label="Main"> and <nav aria-label="Footer">.

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