Page Fragmentation

A web accessibility problem where different types of content on a web page (news articles, advertisements, navigation menus, related links) are visually grouped using colours, spacing, images, and layout but lack structural markup that would allow non-visual users to identify and navigate between these groups. Sighted users intuitively recognise these visual groupings, but screen reader users encounter the page as a linear stream of mixed content with no delimiters or logical organisation. Page fragmentation makes it extremely difficult for blind users to find specific content, skip irrelevant sections, or understand the overall structure of a page. Solutions include semantic HTML landmarks, ARIA roles, and external annotation systems that impose structure on poorly marked-up pages.