I am confused at what you are trying to do here. An ARIA Landmark, allows a person using assistive technology to jump to certain parts of a page, so they don't need to read through the page to find a specific area. For example a sidebar, you could add role="complementary"
, or use the HTML5 <aside>
tag. More information on HTML5 & roles at PGB.
The aria-hidden
attribute is slightly counter-intuitve. So if we have:
<p aria-hidden="true">My cool text</p>
in code. The browser will render:
My cool text
If we look at this same block of text with assistive technology, the result would be like having
<p></p>
Since you are combining a landmark and an attribute, JAWS is unsure what to do. Since landmarks have more power/authority/whatever, and you say give me all the landmarks, it will see it, and allow you to navigate there. However, once you're in it, it will see <div></div>
.