Accessibility: Best Practice – Main Landmark Must Not Be In Another Landmark

It is a best practice to ensure the main landmark is not contained within another landmark. All content should be contained within distinct regions such as the header (role=”banner”), content (role=”main”), and footer (role=”contentinfo”).

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 ‘Main Landmark Must Not Be In Another 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 main landmark is at top level.