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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Oct 25, 2021 2:19AM

Glenn,

The point is you should not have to use such undocumented solutions. No other screen reader requires this on desktop or mobile. Using aria to address shortcoming of assistive technology isn't best practise. These types of band-aid solutions are not supporting the community of users who require this technology to access digital content. If any main stream vendor is stepping into the assistive technology space, then they need to be held accountable to making the assistive technology work for the end user and not have such strange bugs placing more effort on to other developers.

Likewise for browser vendors, there is a lot of ARIA usage which could quite easily be address by HTML and CSS. Reducing the crappy implementation of ARIA that exist now. Browser vendors from my point of view are using ARIA as a band-aid solution rather than expanding the specs to provide support for common patterns being used today.


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Sean Murphy

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