WAI-ARIA or Accessible Rich Internet Applications are attributes you add to your HTML to, among other things, tell blind users what happens on a website. How do you use ARIA and why? And why is the first rule of ARIA: “Do not use ARIA”?
Bring your laptop, prepare examples of websites you want to try and join in.
In this hands-on workshop we will discover:
- What’s the difference if you use ARIA or not
- How to let a screen reader announce dynamic changes and error messages
- How to use the wp.a11y.speak() function
- How to tell whether a hamburger menu is collapsed or expanded
- Which screen reader feedback to give in a one-page website
- Where to get good documentation and example code
- That you can use ARIA in your CSS
Discover that ARIA is not as complicated as you thought it was.
After this workshop you will know how you can help more visitors understand and use your website.