So you want to make your website more accessible? Great! And you’ve heard about ARIA, which stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. Just slap some ARIA attributes on all HTML elements and your page is accessible? Wrong!
If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll end up making your website even less accessible! There’s a reason why the first rule of ARIA is: No ARIA is better than Bad ARIA! Use native HTML elements and attributes with the semantics and behaviour you require.
Let’s take a look at use cases for ARIA and common mistakes you should avoid.
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