ARIA provides an attribute which allows to mark an element in a set of elements as the current one. It works pretty uniformly in modern browsers and screen readers. Still, for most situations there exist alternative techniques that are more robust. In modern web applications there are often situations where the user needs to know…
ARIA provides an attribute which allows to mark an element in a set of elements as the current one. It works pretty uniformly in modern browsers and screen readers. Still, for most situations there exist alternative techniques that are more robust. In modern web applications there are often situations where the user needs to know…
ARIA provides a role which removes the inherent semantics of an element. While this works in most browsers and screen readers, it is rarely needed. Using role=presentation on a link Using role=”presentation”, only the role of an element’s is removed. Any other inherent feature will remain untouched. For example, a link with role=”presentation” neither will be announced as…
ARIA provides a role which removes the inherent semantics of an element. While this works in most browsers and screen readers, it is rarely needed. Intended use of role=presentation To a screen reader, the following is no paragraph anymore, and as such cannot be navigated to by pressing the P key: Working example This is a real…
ARIA provides an attribute which allows to hide elements from screen readers. It works pretty uniformly on non-focusable elements in modern browsers and screen readers, but it still has some very odd peculiarities. So you better try to create solutions that do not need it. While it is only possible using a workaround to hide…
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