Chapter 4: WAI ARIA Authoring Practices

ARIA authoring practices is a guide for content authors in creating rich internet applications. This guide explains the implementation pattern of common widgets.

While this guide explains the best practices in designing accessible widgets and components, it does not address any specific problems caused by browsers or assistive technologies. The current version of authoring practices are not tested for mobile and touch screen usage.

The next module helps you understand few widgets that are built with ARIA authoring practices in mind. Each widget explained in the module have

  1. Definition of the widget.
  2. ARIA roles, states and properties used.
  3. Interaction methods

Testing and expected output with WCAG standard.