Hiding Elements from Screen Readers with aria-hidden [WAI-ARIA]

Published: 30 October 2020
on channel: Web Accessibility Education
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ARIA is an acronym for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. ARIA is a set of attributes you can add to HTML elements that define ways to make web content and applications accessible to users with disabilities who use assistive technologies (AT).

In this short video, we will discuss aria-hidden and give practical examples on how to use it to hide text and elements from screen readers while making it visible to sighted users.

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Video Chapters:
0:00 What is aria-hidden?
0:12 Simple aria-hidden example
2:25 Practical aria-hidden examples
3:16 The 3 aria-hidden values
3:31 aria-hidden button example and troubleshooting


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