I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
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TL;DR
Semantic HTML provides significant accessibility benefits, while ARIA is often misused as a shortcut or supplement. The author shares a personal lesson on the first rule of ARIA.
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Semantic HTML does a lot more accessibility work than we usually give it credit for already — and ARIA is simple to abuse when we use it both as a shortcut and as a supplement.
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