What ARIA still does not do
July 22, 2024
In 2014 I wrote an article What ARIA does not do
It stated:
ARIA is a set of attributes that can be added to HTML elements (and other markup languages) to communicate accessibility role, state, name and properties which are exposed by browsers via platform accessibility APIs. This provides a common, interoperable method of relaying the information to assistive technologies. That’s it. It is the same method used by browsers to convey the inbuilt (or default) accessibility information of native HTML features. The difference being that authors can wire up this information for themselves in the DOM using ARIA, before they could not.
10 years later, the message is unchanged.
Steve Faulkner looks back at something he wrote in 2014 on ARIA, and where we are today.
