diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 120dd60cb..02932cad8 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 * Added an aria-controls attribute when using bslib::page_navbar() with bslib::nav_panel() to establish an explicit relationship between the tab and the controlled tab panel. (@shelbylevel, #1354)
 
+* `page_navbar()` now wraps the top navigation bar in a `<header>` element, giving the page a banner landmark that screen readers can navigate to.
+
+* `page_navbar()` now renders its content area as a `<main>` element, giving the page a main landmark. (Pages with a `sidebar` already had one, via `page_main_container()`.)
+
 # bslib 0.12.0
 
 ## New features
diff --git a/R/page.R b/R/page.R
index 7ecc6cd4b..5385d2848 100644
--- a/R/page.R
+++ b/R/page.R
@@ -469,6 +469,21 @@ page_navbar <- function(
     theme = theme
   )
 
+  # Wrap the navbar in a <header> to give the page a banner landmark.
+  # This happens here, rather than in navs_bar_(), because navset_bar()
+  # (which shares that code) can appear anywhere on a page, where a
+  # banner landmark would be inappropriate.
+  navbar[[1]] <- tags$header(navbar[[1]])
+
+  # Give the content area a <main> landmark. When a sidebar is present, the
+  # content area already contains a <main> (via page_main_container()), so
+  # only change the content container's tag in the sidebar-less case. Done
+  # in-place (rather than wrapping) so the container remains a direct child
+  # of the page's fill container.
+  if (is.null(sidebar)) {
+    navbar[[2]]$name <- "main"
+  }
+
   page_func(
     title = infer_window_title(title, window_title),
     theme = theme,
diff --git a/R/sysdata.rda b/R/sysdata.rda
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diff --git a/man/figures/page-navbar.png b/man/figures/page-navbar.png
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diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-page.R b/tests/testthat/test-page.R
index 9c251f058..c4917c451 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-page.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-page.R
@@ -33,6 +33,61 @@ test_that("page_navbar()", {
   )
 })
 
+test_that("page_navbar() wraps the navbar in a <header> banner landmark", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("shiny")
+  with_private_seed()
+
+  html <- renderTags(page_navbar(
+    title = "foo",
+    nav_panel("One", "content")
+  ))$html
+  expect_match(
+    as.character(html),
+    "<header>\\s*<nav class=\"navbar",
+    perl = TRUE
+  )
+
+  # navset_bar() can appear anywhere on a page, so it must NOT be wrapped
+  with_private_seed()
+  html <- renderTags(navset_bar(
+    title = "foo",
+    nav_panel("One", "content")
+  ))$html
+  expect_no_match(as.character(html), "<header", fixed = TRUE)
+  expect_no_match(as.character(html), "<main", fixed = TRUE)
+})
+
+test_that("page_navbar() gives the content area a <main> landmark", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("shiny")
+  with_private_seed()
+
+  html <- renderTags(page_navbar(
+    title = "foo",
+    nav_panel("One", "content")
+  ))$html
+  expect_match(
+    as.character(html),
+    "<main class=\"container-fluid",
+    fixed = TRUE
+  )
+
+  # With a sidebar, the page-level <main> comes from page_main_container(),
+  # and there should be exactly one <main> on the page
+  with_private_seed()
+  html <- as.character(
+    renderTags(page_navbar(
+      title = "foo",
+      sidebar = sidebar("side"),
+      nav_panel("One", "content")
+    ))$html
+  )
+  expect_match(html, "<main class=\"bslib-page-main", fixed = TRUE)
+  expect_equal(
+    lengths(regmatches(html, gregexpr("<main", html, fixed = TRUE))),
+    1
+  )
+})
+
 test_that("page_sidebar()", {
   with_private_seed()