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Re: most important ARIA

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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Jan 1, 2019 4:25PM

Hello David,
Aria is not something that should be used if there is any other
alternative. It's a last resort.
Thus saying, understanding roles and aria-labeled is the most important,
then being able to do simple widgets like tabs and accordions. The largest
problem with people using Aria, in my experience, is they over-use it. Aria
is not as friendly as HTML. If there is something wrong, the browser and
the screen reader don't figure out what is trying to go on, instead they do
exactly what is said which is a bug to the user.
Inclusive Components is a very good site:
https://inclusive-components.design/
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;


On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 2:12 PM David Engebretson Jr <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Happy new year all!
>
> I'm curious what you consider the most important ARIA to learn. Also, do
> you have reccomendations for novices to ARIA to learn effective techniques
> with those most important elements of ARIA?
>
> Personally, I am a novice with ARIA, but I enjoy its benefits everyday as
> a screen reader user. I use multiple screen readers (JAWS, NVDA,
> Voiceover) and would like to be able to teach my community of web
> developers how to best use ARIA.
>
> Where would you suggest I go to learn how to explain ARIA to developers
> who don't benefit from it everyday? Not all of the developers in my
> community experience the benefits and I want to be able to explain why it
> is important to implement it into their web page designs.
>
> Thanks so much,
> David
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