

Forgetting to Use Native HTML Elements What to Avoid

In this article, I’ll go over a few things that you should avoid when using WAI-ARIA.

The W3C defines WAI-ARIA as “a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities.” However, when reading over material for WAI-ARIA, I noticed that there are many ways to implement it incorrectly, and you can actually make a website worse for people with disabilities! Through the Deque University courses, I went over topics like testing with screen readers, WCAG 2.0, ATAG, and Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Application ( WAI-ARIA). After studying web accessibility for the past few months, I’ve learned more about accessibility than I ever imagined.
