Building Accessible Web Applications: A Short Guide to WAI-ARIA Standards
Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) standards introduce additional attributes that can be incorporated into HTML elements to significantly enhance web application accessibility. This short introductory guide will dive into the fundamental principles of WAI-ARIA, and shed light on how they can be efficiently employed in your web applications. We'll be discussing ARIA roles , states and properties , landmarks , live regions , labels , and complex widgets . The article will also feature code examples and visual illustrations to aid in understanding how WAI-ARIA can be instrumental in improving the accessibility of your web applications. ARIA roles serve as defining markers for the type of element and its function within the application. They prove useful in overriding the default role of an element or in attributing roles to elements that don't inherently have a default role.