# Route Announcements
## Summary
This PR improves the accessibility of NextJS's client-side navigation by announcing route changes to screen readers.
## Context
When a user who is sighted clicks on a link, they can see the content change. It's an affirmation that what the user intended to do by clicking a link actually worked! Users navigating the page via a screen-reader will not get this feedback on NextJS sites (This is an issue on many SPA-like architectures).
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4213649/103017382-63b02b00-44f8-11eb-9940-fb530d2d3018.mov
## Solution
Whenever there is a route change, the new `<RouteAnnouncer />` will look for a name to give the new page and then announce it! The name is found by first looking for an `h1`, falling back to `document.title`, and lastly to `pathname`. `<RouteAnnouncer />` is a visually hidden component placed within the `<AppContainer />`.
## Demo
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4213649/103017401-6ad73900-44f8-11eb-8050-b3e9a7e0c3f2.mov
## Inspiration
First and foremost, this PR was inspired by @marcysutton's studies and writing, [What we learned from user testing of accessible client-side routing techniques with Fable Tech Labs
](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/2019-07-11-user-testing-accessible-client-routing/) as well as @madalynrose's [Accessible Routing](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/19290) PR for Gatsby.
There were also learnings gleaned from the conversations within #7681.
### Related Issues & PRs
- Resolves#7681
- Relates to #19963
