Provide more semantic structure for screen-readers #9358
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Subject: Fix menu narration for sceen-readers
Feature or Bugfix
Accessibility bugfix
Purpose
The use of
<p>
for submenu captions lacks semantic information. Screen-readers don't narrate the menu correctly. This PR adds role="heading" to the caption as an ARIA landmark.Detail
I don't yet know how to test my changes locally, so there may be errors. Please advise if I got it wrong.
Relates
Fixes #8989
Accessibility technique described in https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/aria/ARIA12