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Re: Intro to Advanced Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)

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From: JP Jamous
Date: May 11, 2017 5:51AM


Although I am a strong believer in good solid HTML and only the use of ARIA as icing on the cake, I don't want to cut Joseph's head off if he wrote his document the way he did. Maybe there is a good reason why he did it that way based on his internal environment.

ARIA heavy pages tend to act like gas next to a fire. Once AT gets in contact with ARIA heavy apps, the results are not always good. In fact, it can cause the AT, such as JAWS, to crash. I have witnessed this on many sites. That's the only thing I would warn you to keep in mind Joseph.


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On 10/05/17 19:02, Jared Smith wrote:

> Joseph Sherman wrote:
>
>> Hi all. This is the first post in an Advanced ARIA series<https://www.deque.com/blog/advanced-aria/>.
> ...
>> Remember the First rule of ARIA use
>> <https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#firstrule>
> It's interesting that every example in the Advanced ARIA series
> (links, buttons, headings, lists, and radio buttons) is using ARIA to
> do things that readily-available HTML can do.
To be fair,
1. That's most of what ARIA is good at
2. Examples where people already understand the thing you are doing help communicate the idea faster...

but yeah. Sigh.

cheers

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