Semantics
A landmark containing a collection of navigational elements (usually links) for navigating the document or related documents.
Additional info from the ARIA specification
Assistive technologies SHOULD enable users to quickly navigate to elements with role navigation. user agents SHOULD treat elements with role navigation as navigational landmarks. user agents MAY enable users to quickly navigate to elements with role navigation.
Abstract Role
LandmarkRepresents a top-level section of a page, relevant to a specific purpose, that a user may want to scan for quickly and could appear in a site map or table of contents.
Content Categories
Flow ContentAn element that structures and organizes the body of a web document.
Allowed Descendants
Flow Children Allowed
No main element descendants allowed.
Usage
Allowed HTML elements
Implicit semantics
These elements have the role semantics by default, without needing to set the role attribute. Reach for elements with native semantics first when choosing how to implement a role in your content.
nav
Explicitly allowed
section[role=navigation]
Elements that can have any role
abbr[role=navigation]address[role=navigation]b[role=navigation]blockquote[role=navigation]canvas[role=navigation]cite[role=navigation]code[role=navigation]custom-element[role=navigation]data[role=navigation]del[role=navigation]dfn[role=navigation]div[role=navigation]em[role=navigation]figure[role=navigation]i[role=navigation]ins[role=navigation]kbd[role=navigation]mark[role=navigation]output[role=navigation]p[role=navigation]pre[role=navigation]q[role=navigation]samp[role=navigation]small[role=navigation]span[role=navigation]table[role=navigation]tbody[role=navigation]tfoot[role=navigation]thead[role=navigation]time[role=navigation]u[role=navigation]var[role=navigation]