TL;DR: for standard HTML controls and standard ARIA patterns (widgets), you do not need to add instructions for screen readers on how to use them nor what they are. When a screen reader encounters an element on the page that invites interaction beyond reading, it typically provides users with instructions…| Adrian Roselli
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
A beginner's guide to ARIA: what it is, what it does, why you should use it... and when you shouldn't.| Ben Myers
Understanding the flow of page contents from browser to screenreader caused me to radically rethink accessible markup.| Ben Myers
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user ...| www.w3.org
