ARIA

HTML bietet sieben Elemente, die als Seitenregion dienen. Mit Seitenregionen kann Screenreader-Nutzern eine effiziente Tastaturbedienung innerhalb von Webseiten geboten werden.

Mit ARIA kann eine Webanwendung für Screenreader semantisch angereichert werden. Über die Semantik hinaus sind Tastaturbedienung, Beschriftung und letztlich das testen genauso zu berücksichtigen.

In dealing with role="presentation" and aria-hidden="true" you may find that they both have deceptively similar functions when it relates to how they interact with assistive technology (screen readers). Before we dig into the difference between these two attributes we first need to learn a little bit about how accessibility in a Web browser works and…

This article has by no means covered all that's available in WAI-ARIA, but it should have given you enough information to understand how to use it, and know some of the most common patterns you will encounter that require it.

What do you do when your HTML doesn't communicate the appropriate semantics to screen readers? You use the roles, states, and properties of WAI-ARIA.

Karl Groves-Sandbox