New ARIA landmarks from XHTML 1.X

  • banner
    • A banner is usually defined as the advertisement at the top of a web page. The banner content typically contains the site or company logo and other key advertisements for the site.

  • contentinfo
    • This is information about the content on the page. For example, footnotes, copyrights, links to privacy statements, etc. would belong here.

  • main
    • This defines the main content of a document.

  • navigation
    • This is the navigation bar on a web document. This is typically a list of links to other pages on the site or other areas of the same document.

  • search
    • This is the search section of a web document. This is typically a form used to submit search requests about the site or a more general Internet wide search service.

  • secondary
    • This is any unique section of the document. In the case of a portal, this may include but not be limited to: show times; current weather; or stocks to watch.

  • seealso
    • Indicates that the element contains content that is related to the main content of the page.