# What are landmark roles and how can they be useful?

## Answer

Landmark roles is a way to identify different sections of a page like the main content or a navigation region. The Landmarks helps assistive technology users to navigate a page, allowing them skip over areas of it.

For example,

```html
<div id="header" role="banner">Header of the Page</div>
<div id="content" role="main">Main Content Goes Here</div>
```

## Good to hear

* Identify sections of a page
* Assist users in navigating a page

### Additional links

* [ARIA Landmark Roles](https://www.washington.edu/accessibility/web/landmarks/)
* [Using ARIA landmarks to identify regions of a page](https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_ARIA_landmarks_to_identify_regions_of_a_page)