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Re: order of nesting when using ARIA and html 5

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jun 4, 2013 1:05PM

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Would it suffice then to just use the ARIA role and skip the html5 structural elements? Are there any "cons" for doing so?

Probably not, at least right now. If other systems were to utilize the
HTML5 structural element, such as a browser providing keyboard
navigation to them (if only!), then these would not be available if
you only use the ARIA attribute. There are advantages to using both,
so if you're really doing HTML5, then I'd suggest using both... for
now. As soon as assistive technology support improves for the native
HTML5 elements, we can eventually drop the ARIA attributes - yet
another argument for using both now.

Jared