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Re: Meaningful Sequende Question

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Dec 7, 2022 11:48AM

ARIA attributes were never meant to do work, that's just not why they exist. Browsers do indeed implement these things, as I mentioned: the "dialog" element was built to address this exact problem, and has wide support. ARIA attributes are simply the stopgap so developers are able to build things that browsers can't yet, or shouldn't (such as a custom widget that only makes sense on a single site).

It's not a "not my problem" issue - it's what the w3c explicitly stated about ARIA to begin with. It may behoove you to read W3C's explanation of ARIA rather than cast the blame on browsers who are in fact following the spec precisely.