Accessibility: Best Practice – Contentinfo Landmark Must Be Top Level Landmark

Text content should be contained within a landmark region, the role=”contentinfo” ARIA landmark should be used on an element that is outside of other landmarks used on the page, since footer information is generally separated from the header and main body content.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Contentinfo Landmark Must Be Top Level Landmark’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure the contentinfo landmark is at top level.