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Re: Where does it say to use native HTML features rather than re-create them in ARIA and JS?

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Dec 22, 2016 11:02AM

It's also very important not to use conflicting roles on native interactive elements, and preferably, don't use ARIA roles on any native interactive elements.

E.G I've seen recently where role="button" was added to input+type="text" elements, making them totally inaccessible using VoiceOver in iOS, and role="listbox" on native HTML select elements which caused other issues to occur, and others adding roles to select element option elements with the same inaccessible results.

These are all extremely bad practices.



Bryan Garaventa
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SSB BART Group, Inc.
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