HTML Developers: Please Consider – in the year of 2025 – HTML Accessibility

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I wrote the rules of ARIA, their intention was not to discourage, but to encourage developers to understand the benefits of the built-in semantics, accessibility and behaviours already available in native HTMLwww.tpgi.com/html5-access…[image or embed]— Steve Faulkner (@stevefaulkner.bsky.social) January 10, 2025 at 6:32 AMARIA is an amazing technology, it allows developers to add meaning to meaningless HTML or override meaning on HTML that is being repurposed and sometimes misused, so that users who rely upon the meaning of HTML, as implemented in browsers, can understand and interact with HTML User Interfaces successfully.ARIA allows developers to re-invent and extend native HTML features in meaningful ways. But like all bolt-on technologies its features are brittle compared to its built-in counterparts.By using native HTML features, wherever practical, over custom HTML with bolt-on semantics and interaction behaviours, you will save yourselves and users a lot of grief and ensure t…