How do you know when to use ARIA and when it isn’t necessary? What do roles do to native HTML semantics? Are there additional requirements for working with ARIA? All these questions are easily answer if you understand the five rules for using ARIA in HTML.
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The ARIA Roles Model Part 2
There are a lot ARIA roles, states, and properties to remember. Add in all the details of each and it’s unlikely you’re going to memorize all of ARIA. I suspect most of us will need to look things up more often than not. Fortunately the roles model can help us do just that.
The ARIA Roles Model Part 1
What can you do when the native semantics of the HTML you use don’t communicate enough information or they don’t communicate appropriate information to assistive devices? You use ARIA roles, states, and properties to communicate the semantics instead.
An Introduction To WAI-ARIA’s Roles, States, And Properties
Assistive devices, like screen readers, need to understand web content and applications before they can communicate the information to persons with disabilities. Much of the time the HTML we write provides those semantics. Sometimes it doesn’t, and that’s where WAI-ARIA comes in.