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Re: [External Sender]WCAG guideline for too much ARIA

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From: Barry Hill
Date: Dec 18, 2018 6:50AM


I've found that so many times that the problem with throwing Aria at it
until it works is that as soon as you change one small thing in the mark up,
it breaks the Aria. Best to just write in standard code in the first place.

Cheers

Barry



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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [External Sender] Re: WCAG guideline for too much ARIA

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 8:08 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> We test a lot of websites, and they fall pretty much into two categories:
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>
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> b. They have too much ARIA and it is mostly used incorrectly.
>

This underscores the need for training. Often devs have no idea what ARIA
does, so they just use it willy-nilly, or they have a specific problem they
are trying to solve and just keep throwing ARIA at it until they get the
result they are looking for.
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