What the Heck is ARIA? A Beginner's Guide to ARIA for Accessibility

Description: Let's face it...ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) can be very overwhelming. Because of this, we can end up using it incorrectly, or not at all.

Some of you may have heard of the first rule of ARIA: Don't use ARIA. We should always default to native HTML. There is a time and a place for using ARIA to make your content accessible to assistive technologies (AT). That's the purpose of this session:

What we'll cover in this session:

What is ARIA?

Where does ARIA come from?

Who is ARIA for?

What can ARIA do?

When shouldn’t I use ARIA?

When should I use ARIA?

How does Drupal use ARIA?

What confusion is there on using ARIA?

We'll wrap up with some ARIA resources Q & A.

Presenter Slides: https://bit.ly/midcamp2025-what-the-heck-is-aria