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What is the use case for ARIA?

April 26, 2017ARIA Case

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What is the use case for ARIA?

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• A web developer or team has developed one or more JavaScript widgets, and needs to make the widget accessible because accessibility is part of a project’s requirements, which uses those widgets. The author must use the ARIA properties to provide the basic type, state and changes of their JavaScript widgets to screen readers and other assistive technologies. The author utilizes the available documentation and examples on the web, and tests the results with free assistive technologies or test tools. When the author needs help they sign up for the wai-xtech mailing list and ask there. • A web developer is using widgets from a JavaScript toolkit, and needs their web application to be accessible. The toolkit already has ARIA support built in. The author can just use the accessible JavaScript toolkit without understanding ARIA. JavaScript is how industry is developing compelling Web 2.0 applications today, and these applications need to be made accessible today. ARIA provides a mechanism f