Introduction

In the previous story, we learned about the importance of web accessibility and how we can achieve that using standard HTML, CSS, and JS. We have learned that **WAI-ARIA **defines a set of additional HTML attributes that can be applied to elements to provide additional semantics and improve openness wherever it is lacking for Assistive technologies(using OS APIs).

From an HTML angle, **WAI-ARIA **provides extra attributes applicable to all HTML elements. An important point about WAI-ARIA attributes is that they don’t affect anything on the web page, except for the information exposed by the browser’s accessibility APIs

In the previous story, we have also learned that Accessibility does not just mean “blind users with screen readers”, but sighted keyboard users, users with colour blindness/deficiencies, deaf/hard of hearing users, users with cognitive disabilities. however, ARIA is (almost) exclusively about** how to ensure that web content is correctly conveyed to assistive technologies** (screen readers, screen magnifiers with screen reading capability, etc)

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