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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Jul 23, 2020 7:27AM

The first rule of ARIA is only use ARIA when you can't do something via HTML.

Dave



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With recent releases of JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver and recent releases of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, is there any benefit from doubling up with code like <nav role="navigation"> or <footer role="contentinfo"> or even <form="form" >? Are there (still) some popular screen reader-browser combinations, perhaps on mobile devices, that benefit from having both HTML5 elements and also the ARIA roles? (I mean, of course, just in those cases where you do have equivalence.) Is there a downside to doubling up?
Thanks,
Alan

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