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Is ARIA too complex for web authors to get right?

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Is ARIA too complex for web authors to get right?

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ARIA is not any more complex than developing cross-browser, custom JavaScript widgets. That is not a small undertaking, and not a task for the average web developer. Yes, ARIA support adds another layer of complexity. However, even without ARIA many authors will be running JavaScript toolkits with powerful pre-built widgets. ARIA support should be, and is being added to these toolkits, which authors can then reuse. While it is not extremely likely for an individual author to use ARIA directly, it is reasonable to expect that an array of organizations will need to make their web applications accessible. Individual web authors can benefit from ARIA integration in any open source JavaScript toolkits that these organizations build, just as they already benefit from the debugged cross-browser support in these toolkits. In addition, testing tools are being developed as are examples and “best practices” documents, to guide web authors that wish to use ARIA.