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Enduring CSS
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Enduring CSS

by Ben Frain
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
134 pages
2h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

Using WAI-ARIA states to communicate changes in the DOM provides styling hooks that are as useful and easy to use as standard HTML classes. Although purely preference, I'm also a fan of the fact that an entirely different selector is used to communicate state in the style sheets; it is simpler to spot within a rule.

None of those prior factors really get you anything new. What using WAI-ARIA states will do, virtually for free, is start to provide a better means of communicating your web application state to users of assistive technology. If money talks, consider also that by using WAI-ARIA you are widening your product up to a greater number of users (see the additional info below).

As such, using WAI-ARIA states and properties, is the recommended ...

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ISBN: 9781787282803