WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Alt-text vs. Aria

for

From: joe
Date: Apr 4, 2019 8:49AM


On point 1: 2.1 First Rule of ARIA Use

If you can use a native HTML element [HTML51] or attribute with the
semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purposing
an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible,
then do so.

From W3C: Using ARIA = https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#rule1