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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 5, 2020 4:03AM

On 05/07/2020 09:34, Всеволод Попов wrote:

> Did I understand correctly that aria recommendations are used when there are more complicated situations when wcag cannot be used

Correction: when HTML cannot be used. When there are
widgets/constructs/controls that you simply can't do just in HTML (like
tab panels, accordions, modal dialogs) but you need to still convey what
they are to screen readers / assistive technologies.

With ARIA, you're adding extra information about "what is this thing,
what does it do, what's its current state" to otherwise neutral elements
in HTML. This information is then passed on to assistive technologies by
browsers.

Randomly, not sure how useful these are in isolation/without the actual
talk, but here are some slides I put together ages ago that hopefully
give a bit of context/introduction to what ARIA does, and some simple
examples.

https://www.slideshare.net/redux/waiaria-an-introduction-to-accessible-rich-internet-applications-javascript-days-2018-berlin-10-october-2018

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