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by konradkpl 1692 days ago
React Aria is a great project! We used it to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA requirements in our chat widget. It's even hard to assess how many days of work we have saved thanks to this solution. We've covered a bit of our experience in multiple posts, e.g. with handling keyboard navigation: https://developers.livechat.com/updates/livechat-accessibili...).
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It is nice that Aria itself gets some attention, since Aria is quite unknown by many people despite its age. It isn't only blind or otherwise disabled people that would profit from controls and content being decently tagged and classified, even if that is the scope of it.

It is however quite extensive as you can see by the role definitions:

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/img/rdf_model.png

Don't know if that is still best practice, screen readers probably are way smarter today.