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Nothing marks where the content starts
Somebody using a screen reader hears the whole menu again on every page before reaching the content, unless the page marks where the content begins. It is invisible to everyone else and makes an enormous difference to the people it affects.
It is one word in the page's structure.
Worth about 1 point of your 100 for a typical businessAbout 1 hour, by your web person
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WAVE reports a missing main landmark.
- Free toolWAVE, the free accessibility checker
How to fix it
- Have your web person wrap the page's content in the main landmark.
The technical version, for your web person
<main>. A <main> element or role="main" on the homepage.
What the check reads. soup.find('main') OR an element with role='main' is present.
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