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current public wai-aria working draft states: Within any document or application, the author SHOULD mark no more than one element with the banner role. [http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#banner] requested modification to HTML5: add this conformance statement in the appropriate section of the spec [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-0.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria].
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4672. Check-in comment: Mention that ARIA restricts 'banner' to one per page. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4671&to=4672
Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.