--- title: "Semantic HTML and landmarks" category: accessibility status: required url: https://webspecification.com/spec/accessibility/semantic-html/ updated: "2026-05-29T10:57:27.000Z" sources: - title: "WCAG 1.3.1 — Info and Relationships (Level A)" url: "https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/info-and-relationships.html" publisher: "W3C" - title: "MDN — HTML elements reference" url: "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element" publisher: "MDN" - title: "W3C WAI — ARIA Landmarks" url: "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/landmark-regions/" publisher: "W3C WAI" - title: "WP Accessibility — Frontend code" url: "https://wpaccessibility.org/" publisher: "WP Accessibility" source_repo: undefined licence: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Semantic HTML and landmarks > Use the right HTML element for the job. Landmarks like
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