[ohgodplsno]

Only if you want to give your users a terrible experience where the screen reader reads a bunch of separate items with no logical connection between them.

A single aria-label describing a component and its actions is always going to be better.

[Ensorceled]

Exactly. I made a large site AODA compliant and, yes, I could have done it without aria-* but it would have been a really shitty UX.