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ARIA Misuse Catalog

Redundant roles, aria-label overriding text, aria-hidden on focusable elements, the specific ways ARIA goes wrong.

Difficulty
Medium
Format
Quiz
Points
150
Estimate
9 min

// MISSION BRIEF

Your Mission

Wrong ARIA is worse than no ARIA. This quiz is a catalog of specific misuse: the redundant role, the label that overrides visible text, the aria-hidden that leaves a control focusable but unnamed, and the broken reference. Learn to spot each one on sight.

// FIRST CONTACT

Battle teaser

A <button role="button"> is:

  1. ARequired for the button to be announced
  2. BA redundant role (button already has it), a harmless-ish code smell and often a sign of copy-pasted ARIA
  3. CA performance improvement
  4. DAn error that breaks the button entirely
Answers, scoring, hints, and the full battle stay sealed.

// SKILL TAGS

accessibilityariascreen-readeranti-patterns