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Labeling and describing with ARIA

Labeling and describing with ARIA

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Labeling and describing with ARIA

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- [Narrator] As you are developing web-based forms, you should utilize as much accessible technology and tools that you can to ensure the widest accessible experience for all of your users. ARIA is one way to accomplish this task. It makes your website more accessible to people with disabilities, such as hearing or visual impairments. So what is ARIA? ARIA is shorthand for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. ARIA is a set of attributes you can add to HTML elements that define ways to make web content and applications accessible to users with disabilities who use assistive technologies. When accessibility issues cannot be managed with native HTML, ARIA can help bridge those gaps. There are two main components used in ARIA, roles and attributes. ARIA roles are added to HTML markup like an attribute. They define the type of element and suggest what purpose it serves. In this example, we are using the ARIA role on the…

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