How to Use ARIA Roles and Properties Effectively
July 18, 2025
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is one of the most powerful tools in a developer’s accessibility toolkit—but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. While ARIA can improve accessibility when used correctly, misuse can actually make things worse for users who rely on assistive technologies (AT), such as screen readers.So, how do you use ARIA effectively? In this post, we’ll break down what ARIA is, when to use it (and when not to), and best practices for implementing ARIA roles and properties to improve web accessibility.
ARIA has been around and widely supported for many years now. But it is over poorly understood and even more poorly adopted.
So we’ll keep covering new things to help adoption like this comprehensive piece.
