Warning: The following recommendations have not been subjected to usability testing by people with disabilities. All recommendations in this post are purely speculative using my best judgement and should be considered a work-in-progress. Note: Testing was originally conducted on <model-viewer> version 0.1.1 in ea

If you have little experience with ARIA, screen readers, or testing in general, understanding accessible descriptions can be trickier than understanding accessible names (already confusing for many). I have written explanations so many times for clients and in fora that I opted to put this together so I maybe never…

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

ARIA roles are one half of the predefined categories of attributes used to describe elements that may not exist natively in browsers or may not be understood by screen readers and other assistive technologies.

The popover attribute adds behaviour, not semantics. Which semantics should you use in combination with the popover attribute?

A subset of ARIA roles are defined as having presentational children. These are mostly a subset of widget roles Presentational Children The DOM descendants are presentational. User agents SHOULD NOT expose descendants of this element through the...

TL;DR: Despite claims, APG’s support charts are not ARIA support charts and they are not analogous to Can I Use. While brand new and likely to grow, their scope is still strictly APG patterns. Why I Say This I have opinions on the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG). I am…

Find (accessible) HTML slides here: https://slides.yatil.net/were-aria-live.html