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The footer landmark: Crawl Audit check 184

Crawl Audit check 184 looks for a footer element on your page. What screen readers call it, when it counts as a landmark, and what usually goes in it.

Zain Kazmi1 min read
On this page
  1. What Crawl Audit checks
  2. What W3C says
  3. What usually goes in it
  4. On devmarde.com
  5. Sources
Check
184 of 200
Module
Content Quality & Accessibility
Group
Accessibility (a11y) & WCAG Compliance
Impact
Low

Short answer: the site-wide footer, with contact details, legal links and company information, should be a <footer> element. Screen readers announce it as the "content info" landmark, so people can jump straight to it. Check 184 warns if the page has none.

What Crawl Audit checks

  • Pass: a <footer> element, or an element with role="contentinfo".
  • Warning: neither.

Like check 183, it accepts any footer, including one inside an article, which isn't the page's footer landmark.

What W3C says

  • "The HTML footer element defines a contentinfo landmark when its context is the body element."
  • A footer inside an article, aside, main, nav or section only closes that section and isn't a landmark.

What usually goes in it

  • Contact details and address (checks 126 and 127).
  • Privacy policy and terms links (checks 128 and 129).
  • For UK companies, the company name, number, where it's registered and the registered office.

On devmarde.com

Our pages end with one top-level <footer> holding our contact details, links and company information. It passes.

Sources

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