ARIA
Difficulty: Advanced
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- Structure
While support for ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is not perfect, implementing it can never make a web application less accessible. While native accessibility should be implemented to the extent possible in HTML, ARIA allows enhanced semantics and accessibility that is not possible with HTML alone. Much of ARIA will be part of native HTML5, but because ARIA accessibility support is much more extensive than HTML5 accessibility support and because ARIA can be applied to HTML and XHTML pages, it makes the most sense to implement ARIA and take advantage of the enhanced accessibility it provides now.
