How to Use ARIA: Roles, States & Properties
ARIA is the most misused tool in accessibility. It does exactly one thing, adjust what a screen reader announces, and it adds no behavior of its own, so a wrong attribute makes your interface lie to assistive technology. This guide teaches the discipline that makes you the exception: the five rules of ARIA, when native HTML wins, how roles, states, and properties really work, accessible names, landmarks, the aria-hidden traps, and the mistakes that show up most in the wild. Mapped to WCAG 2.2, with copy-ready code.
ARIA Changes Semantics, Nothing Else
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a set of attributes, roles, states, and properties, that modify the accessibility tree: the structured model of your page that the browser builds and hands to a screen reader or other assistive technology. Adjusting that model is the entire job of ARIA. It does not make anything focusable, keyboard operable, or clickable, and it changes no pixels on screen.
That single fact explains most ARIA failures. When you write <div role="button">, a screen reader will announce “button,” but the div is still not in the tab order, still ignores the keyboard, and still fires no activation on Enter or Space. You have promised a button and delivered a decoration. A native <button> would have given you the role, the focusability, the keyboard behavior, and the click and key events, all for free.
The evidence: ARIA is associated with more errors, not fewer
In the WebAIM Million analysis of the top one million home pages, pages that used ARIA averaged 59.1 detected errors each, versus 42 on pages with no ARIA, about 40 percent more. Some of that gap is greater page complexity, but a large part is ARIA applied incorrectly. The takeaway is not to avoid ARIA, it is essential for custom widgets, but to treat every attribute as a promise your markup and JavaScript have to keep. That discipline is what this guide is about.
Hold on to one priority ordering as you read, because everything else follows from it: correct native HTML beats ARIA, ARIA beats nothing, and incorrect ARIA is worse than nothing, because it actively tells assistive technology something false. This is the meaning of the community maxim no ARIA is better than bad ARIA.
Which WCAG Criteria ARIA Serves
ARIA is how you satisfy the criteria that require correct semantics for assistive technology. The highlighted row, 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value, is the criterion ARIA exists to serve. Note the last row: ARIA does not make anything keyboard operable, so 2.1.1 Keyboard remains a separate obligation you meet in JavaScript.
| Criterion | Level | How ARIA applies |
|---|---|---|
| 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value | A | Every control exposes a role, an accessible name, and its states and values. ARIA supplies the role and state for custom widgets that no native element covers. |
| 1.3.1 Info and Relationships | A | Structure and relationships are conveyed in code. Landmark roles, aria-labelledby, and grouping roles expose relationships that visual layout alone does not. |
| 4.1.3 Status Messages | AA | Status updates are announced without moving focus. aria-live, role=status, and role=alert are the mechanism. |
| 2.5.3 Label in Name | A | The accessible name must contain the visible label text. An aria-label that omits or contradicts the visible words fails this. |
| 2.4.6 Headings and Labels | AA | Names describe purpose. Whether the name comes from text, aria-label, or aria-labelledby, it has to be meaningful. |
| 3.3.1 Error Identification | A | Errors are identified in text and tied to the field with aria-invalid and aria-describedby so a screen reader announces them. |
| 1.1.1 Non-text Content | A | Meaningful non-text content has a text alternative. role=img with aria-label names an inline SVG; aria-hidden hides a decorative one. |
| 2.1.1 Keyboard | A | ARIA does not provide this. A custom widget with the right roles still needs keyboard handlers and focus management written by hand. |
For the wording of every criterion, browse the WCAG 2.2 reference. For a lookup of every role and attribute, the interactive ARIA roles & attributes reference is the companion to this guide.
1. The Five Rules of ARIA
The W3C Using ARIA document distills correct usage into five rules. Internalize them and you will avoid the large majority of the mistakes in this guide before you write a single attribute.
- Use native HTML if you can. If an element or attribute already has the role, state, and behavior you need, use it rather than recreating it with ARIA. A
<button>,<nav>,<input type="checkbox">, and<select>are more robust than any div-and-ARIA reconstruction. - Do not change native semantics unless you must. Do not put
role="tab"on an<h2>. If you need a heading to also be a tab, nest the semantics (<h2><button role="tab">...</button></h2>) rather than overwriting the heading. - All interactive ARIA controls must work with the keyboard. If you build a
role="slider"orrole="menuitem", it has to respond to the expected keys and be reachable in the tab order. See the keyboard accessibility and focus management guides. - Do not use role="presentation" or aria-hidden="true" on a focusable element. Doing so creates a control a keyboard user can land on but a screen reader will not announce. This is covered in depth in section 5.
- Every interactive element must have an accessible name. A control with an empty name is announced only by its role (“button,” “edit”), which tells the user nothing about what it does. Section 3 is all about names.
Rules one and two are about restraint, rules three and five are obligations you take on the moment you add a widget role, and rule four is the single most common serious bug. The rest of this guide is these five rules in practice.
2. Roles, States, and Properties
ARIA comes in three parts, and knowing which is which tells you how to maintain each one.
- Role is what the element is:
role="dialog",role="tablist",role="navigation". A role is usually set once and rarely changes. It defines what the element means and what states and properties are allowed on it. - States are the current, changing condition of a control:
aria-checked,aria-expanded,aria-selected,aria-pressed,aria-disabled,aria-current. These change as the user interacts, and your JavaScript must update them in lockstep with the visual change, or the screen reader will announce the wrong thing. - Properties are more stable characteristics and relationships:
aria-label,aria-labelledby,aria-describedby,aria-haspopup,aria-controls,aria-required. They tend to be set once and left alone, though some, likearia-controls, can update.
Roles fall into a few families. The ones you touch most are widget roles (button, tab, slider, menuitem, the interactive controls), landmark roles (navigation, main, banner, the page regions, covered in section 4), document structure roles (list, listitem, heading, table), and live region roles (status, alert, log, covered in section 6). One family you should never write as a value is abstract roles such as widget, composite, or input; they exist only to organize the specification and are ignored on real elements.
A role overrides every native semantic on the element
This is the sharpest edge of ARIA. When you add a role, the element’s built-in meaning is replaced, not supplemented. <a href role="button"> stops being announced as a link. <ul role="menu"> is no longer a list, and its <li> children stop being list items. <table role="presentation"> loses all of its rows-and-cells meaning. That is sometimes exactly what you want, but it means a careless role silently strips real semantics, so add one only when you intend to change what the element is.
Here is a state kept in sync, the way rule three of section 2 demands. The visual change and the ARIA change happen together, in one place:
<button type="button" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="panel">
Details
</button>
<div id="panel" hidden>...</div>
<script>
const btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-controls="panel"]');
const panel = document.getElementById('panel');
btn.addEventListener('click', () => {
const open = btn.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true';
// Flip the visual state and the ARIA state in the same step
btn.setAttribute('aria-expanded', String(!open));
panel.hidden = open;
});
</script>3. Accessible Names: aria-label vs aria-labelledby vs aria-describedby
The accessible name is the string a screen reader announces to identify a control, and it is rule five of ARIA. The browser computes it through the accessible name computation, which checks sources in a fixed priority order and uses the first one it finds:
aria-labelledby(references the id of visible text; wins over everything)aria-label(a string you write in the attribute)- The native label: a
<label>element, the element’s own text content, or analtattribute titleorplaceholderas a last resort (fragile, avoid relying on these)
Choosing between the three
- aria-labelledby is your first choice when the label is already visible on the page. It points at one or more ids, and the browser stitches their text together, so the accessible name stays perfectly in sync with what sighted users read.
- aria-label is for controls with no visible text, the classic case being an icon-only button. Because the string is invisible, it is easy to let it drift out of date, and some browser translation features have historically skipped it, so do not use it when visible text exists.
- aria-describedby does not set the name. It adds an extra description, announced after the name following a short pause, and it is for hints, format requirements, and error messages, not for identifying the control.
<!-- Best: name from visible text, via aria-labelledby -->
<h2 id="billing">Billing address</h2>
<section role="group" aria-labelledby="billing"> ... </section>
<!-- Fine: no visible text, so aria-label names the icon button -->
<button type="button" aria-label="Close dialog">
<svg aria-hidden="true" focusable="false"> ... </svg>
</button>
<!-- Name + description: the label names it, describedby adds the hint -->
<label for="pw">Password</label>
<input id="pw" type="password" aria-describedby="pw-hint">
<p id="pw-hint">At least 12 characters.</p>Two traps that quietly lose the name
Generic elements do not take a name. aria-label and aria-labelledby are ignored on a plain <div> or <span> that has no interactive or landmark role. The label simply disappears. Put it on a real control, or give the element a role first.
The name must contain the visible label. 2.5.3 Label in Name means a button that visually reads “Send” must not have aria-label="Submit": a speech-input user who says “click Send” would find nothing to click. Match the accessible name to the visible words.
Name computation is the heart of 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value; that page walks the algorithm in more detail with a testing workflow.
4. Landmark Roles: Structure You Mostly Get for Free
Landmarks let screen reader users jump straight to the major regions of a page, the navigation, the main content, the footer, instead of reading through everything. The good news is that HTML5 gives you the important landmark roles automatically, so in most cases you should not write the role at all:
| HTML element | Implicit landmark role |
|---|---|
<header> (top level) | banner |
<nav> | navigation |
<main> | main |
<aside> | complementary |
<footer> (top level) | contentinfo |
<search> | search |
<section> with a name | region |
You only need to write a landmark role explicitly when you are stuck with non-semantic markup you cannot change, or when the native element is not yet available in your target browsers (the <search> element is recent, so role="search" on the form is still a common fallback). Three rules keep landmarks useful:
- Exactly one main. There should be a single
<main>landmark per page, wrapping the primary content. - Name repeated landmarks. If a page has more than one
<nav>or<aside>, give each a distinct accessible name witharia-labeloraria-labelledby(“Primary,” “Breadcrumb,” “Footer”) so the user can tell them apart. - Do not put the role name in the label. Write
aria-label="Primary", notaria-label="Primary navigation": the role already says “navigation,” so the word would be announced twice.
<header> <!-- banner -->
<a href="/">Acme</a>
<nav aria-label="Primary"> ... </nav>
</header>
<nav aria-label="Breadcrumb"> ... </nav> <!-- named, so it is distinct -->
<main> <!-- one per page -->
<h1>Page title</h1>
...
</main>
<footer> <!-- contentinfo -->
<nav aria-label="Footer"> ... </nav>
</footer>Landmarks help screen reader users, but keyboard users who do not run a screen reader still need a visible skip to main content link as the first focusable element, which satisfies 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks. Landmarks and a skip link are complementary, not alternatives.
5. aria-hidden and How to Hide Things Correctly
Rule four of ARIA gets its own section because breaking it is the most common serious ARIA bug on the web. aria-hidden="true" removes an element and its entire subtree from the accessibility tree, so a screen reader will not announce it. It does not change the visual display, and it does not remove anything from the keyboard tab order.
So if you place aria-hidden="true"on a link, a button, or any container that holds focusable controls, a keyboard user can still Tab onto those controls, but the screen reader stays completely silent. A blind keyboard user lands on “nothing,” loses their place, and cannot tell what the control does. Never put aria-hidden on a focusable element or on an ancestor of one. If interactive content must be hidden, remove it from focus at the same time.
The reliable way to reason about this is to know what each hiding technique does to the three planes at once, sight, the accessibility tree, and focus:
| Technique | Visible? | In a11y tree? | Focusable? |
|---|---|---|---|
hidden / display:none | No | No | No |
visibility:hidden | No | No | No |
aria-hidden="true" | Yes | No | Yes (the trap) |
inert attribute | Yes | No | No |
.sr-only (clip / off-screen) | No | Yes | Yes |
Read those rows as a toolbox. Use hidden or display:none to hide something from everyone. Use inert to keep content visible but non-interactive and unread, which is exactly what you want for the background behind a modal. Reserve aria-hidden="true" for content that is visible and notfocusable, and that would be redundant or noisy to a screen reader, such as a decorative icon sitting beside visible text, or the “/” separators in a breadcrumb. Use .sr-only for the opposite case: text you want a screen reader to read but not display, like the hidden label on a skip link.
<!-- Correct: decorative icon, not focusable, hidden from the screen reader -->
<button type="button">
<svg aria-hidden="true" focusable="false"> ... </svg>
Delete
</button>
<!-- WRONG: aria-hidden on a focusable link = a phantom the keyboard can reach -->
<a href="/cart" aria-hidden="true">Cart</a>
<!-- If a whole region must be hidden, use hidden or inert, not aria-hidden -->
<div inert>...background behind the modal...</div>One related tool: role="presentation" (and its synonym role="none") strips only the element’s own semantics while keeping its children in the tree, which is how you tell a screen reader to ignore a layout <table> without hiding its contents. That is different from aria-hidden, which removes the whole subtree.
6. Live Regions: Announcing Change Without Moving Focus
When something updates on the page without a full navigation, a saved confirmation, a validation error, a search-result count, a screen reader will not notice unless you tell it to. Live regions are how ARIA announces these changes politely, without stealing focus. This is the mechanism behind 4.1.3 Status Messages.
- aria-live="polite" (or
role="status") waits for the screen reader to finish what it is saying, then announces the change. This is the default choice for almost everything. - aria-live="assertive" (or
role="alert") interrupts immediately. Reserve it for genuinely urgent, time-sensitive messages such as a submission error, and use it sparingly. - role="log" is a polite region for content that appends over time, such as a chat transcript.
The single most important implementation detail: the live region must already be in the DOM before you change its text. If you insert the region and its message at the same time, most screen readers treat it as initial content and stay silent. Render an empty region on load, then write into it.
<!-- Mounted empty on load; you set textContent later -->
<div id="status" role="status" aria-live="polite" class="sr-only"></div>
<script>
function announce(message) {
document.getElementById('status').textContent = message;
}
// announce('Settings saved.');
</script>Live regions have enough depth to fill their own guide. For the full treatment, including the streaming case and how to re-announce identical messages, see WCAG 4.1.3 Status Messages, the accessible AI chat guide (streaming without flooding the screen reader), and the form validation guide (announcing errors without double-speaking).
7. Where ARIA Gets Hard: The Component Patterns
ARIA is easy for a single attribute and genuinely hard for a full composite widget, where you have to combine roles, keep several states in sync, manage focus with a roving tabindex or aria-activedescendant, and wire up the keyboard. The WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices define the correct recipe for each of these, and each has its own build guide here. When you need one of these components, start from its guide rather than assembling the ARIA from memory:
- Tabs and accordions and disclosures
- Comboboxes and autocomplete and listboxes
- Menus and menu buttons and dialogs and modals
- Switches and toggles and sliders and range inputs
- Tree views and data grids
Notice how many of those guides open the same way: with a check on whether you need the ARIA widget at all, because a native control or a simpler pattern is often the right answer. That is rule one in action. If you work in a framework, the React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte guides show how ARIA binds to reactive state in each one, and why a headless component library often carries this weight better than a hand-rolled widget.
8. Testing Your ARIA
ARIA is uniquely easy to get wrong in ways that look fine, so it needs a layered check.
- Read the accessibility tree. Chrome and Firefox developer tools both show the computed name, role, and states for any element. This is the fastest way to confirm the browser sees what you intended, and to catch a name that resolved to empty.
- Run an automated scanner, but know its limits. Tools like axe and WAVE reliably flag invalid ARIA: misspelled attributes, non-existent roles, broken
aria-labelledbyreferences, missing required children, andaria-hiddenon a focusable element. They cannot flag ARIA that is valid but wrong, such as a role that misrepresents the control or a state your code never updates. See automated vs manual testing. - Test with a real screen reader and the keyboard. Tab through the interface with a screen reader running and listen to what each control announces, its name, its role, and its changing state. This is the only way to catch the valid-but-wrong class of bug. Follow the screen reader testing guide.
- Look up anything you are unsure of. The interactive ARIA roles and attributes reference lists what each role requires and what states it allows, so you can confirm a role has its required parent, children, and properties before you ship it.
Fold all of this into your broader process with the accessibility audit guide.
Common ARIA Mistakes & How to Fix Them
These are the ARIA errors that show up most often in real-world audits and in the WebAIM Million data. Each one comes from a good intention applied without the rule behind it.
| Anti-pattern | Why it fails | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| Rebuilding a native control out of a div plus an ARIA role. | A <div role="button"> has the role but none of the behavior: no focus, no keyboard, no events. You have to add all of it, and you usually miss some (violates rule 1, and 2.1.1). | Use the native element. A real <button> or <a href> gives you role, keyboard, focus, and events with zero ARIA. |
| aria-hidden="true" on a focusable element or its container. | The element stays in the tab order but vanishes from the accessibility tree, so a keyboard user reaches a control the screen reader never announces (rule 4). | Remove interactive content from focus too. Use the hidden attribute, display:none, or the inert attribute; reserve aria-hidden for decorative, non-focusable content. |
| aria-labelledby or aria-describedby pointing at an id that does not exist. | A broken reference produces no name or description at all, so the control is left unnamed. This is one of the most common detected ARIA errors in the wild. | Confirm every referenced id is present and unique in the DOM, and keep the reference in sync when content is conditionally rendered. |
| aria-label on a plain div, span, or other element with no role. | Generic elements without an interactive or landmark role do not take an accessible name, so the label is silently ignored and the content is lost. | Put the label on a real interactive element or landmark, or give the element the appropriate role first, then name it. |
| An accessible name that does not match the visible text. | aria-label="Submit" on a button that reads "Send" fails Label in Name (2.5.3): a speech-input user says "Send" and nothing happens. | Make the accessible name contain the visible label. Prefer aria-labelledby to the visible text, or match the aria-label to it exactly. |
| A widget role whose state is never updated in JavaScript. | role="switch" or aria-expanded that stays false while the control visibly changes tells the screen reader the opposite of what is true (fails 4.1.2). | Update the state attribute in the same code that changes the visual state, so aria-checked and aria-expanded always reflect reality. |
| Redundant roles on native elements: <button role="button">, <nav role="navigation">. | The role duplicates what the element already exposes. It adds noise, and if the element and role ever disagree, the ARIA wins and can mislead. | Delete the redundant role. Native elements already carry their role; only add a role when you are changing or supplying semantics HTML cannot. |
The ARIA Checklist
- Native first. Before adding any role, confirm no native HTML element already does the job. If one does, use it and delete the ARIA.
- No redundant roles. Remove roles that just repeat what the element already exposes (
<button role="button">). - Every control is named. Each interactive element has a non-empty accessible name, and the name contains the visible label (2.5.3).
- References resolve. Every
aria-labelledby,aria-describedby, andaria-controlspoints at an id that exists and is unique. - States stay in sync. Every
aria-expanded,aria-checked,aria-selected, andaria-pressedis updated by the same code that changes the visual state. - Keyboard works. Every interactive ARIA control is reachable and operable by keyboard (2.1.1); ARIA did not provide this, your code did.
- No aria-hidden on focus. No
aria-hidden="true"sits on, or wraps, a focusable element; hidden interactive content is also removed from the tab order. - Valid values only. No misspelled attributes, no non-existent roles, and no abstract roles used as values.
- Landmarks are clean. One
<main>, repeated landmarks are individually named, and native elements are used instead of explicit roles where possible. - Verified in the tree. You checked the computed name, role, and state in the browser accessibility tree and confirmed the announcement with a screen reader.
Get the Semantics Right
Start from the criterion ARIA exists to serve, then keep the interactive reference open while you build.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is ARIA and what does it actually do?▾
ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of HTML attributes, roles, states, and properties, that adjust the accessibility tree: the structured description of your page that browsers hand to assistive technology such as screen readers. That is the whole of what ARIA does. It changes what a screen reader announces. It does not add any behavior, keyboard support, focus management, or styling of its own. Adding role="button" to a div makes a screen reader call it a button, but it does not make the div focusable, clickable by keyboard, or operable with Space and Enter. You still have to build all of that yourself. Because ARIA only changes semantics, using it wrongly makes a screen reader announce something that is not true, which is often worse than adding nothing at all.
Why do pages that use ARIA have more accessibility errors?▾
The WebAIM Million analysis of the top one million home pages found that pages using ARIA averaged about 59 detected errors each, compared with about 42 on pages with no ARIA, roughly 40 percent more. That association is partly because ARIA-heavy pages tend to be more complex, but it also reflects a real pattern: ARIA is frequently applied incorrectly. A broken aria-labelledby reference, an aria-hidden on a focusable control, or a role that contradicts the element it sits on all create new failures that would not exist without the ARIA. The lesson is not to avoid ARIA, which is essential for custom widgets, but to treat every attribute as a promise your markup and JavaScript must keep. Used with discipline, ARIA is indispensable; sprinkled on for reassurance, it is a liability.
What are the five rules of ARIA?▾
The W3C Using ARIA document sets out five rules. One: if a native HTML element or attribute already has the semantics and behavior you need, use it instead of recreating it with ARIA. Two: do not change native semantics unless you really have to, so do not put role="tab" on a heading. Three: all interactive ARIA controls must be usable with the keyboard. Four: do not put role="presentation" or aria-hidden="true" on a focusable element, because that creates a control a keyboard user can reach but a screen reader cannot announce. Five: every interactive element must have an accessible name. If you follow only these five rules, you will avoid the large majority of ARIA mistakes.
When should I not use ARIA?▾
Do not use ARIA when a native HTML element already does the job. A <button> is a better button than a <div role="button">, because the browser gives you the role, keyboard operation, focus, and events for free. A native <nav>, <main>, <input type="checkbox">, or <select> is more robust and better supported than any ARIA reconstruction. The saying no ARIA is better than bad ARIA captures the priority: correct native HTML beats ARIA, ARIA beats nothing, and incorrect ARIA is the worst of the three because it actively misinforms assistive technology. Reach for ARIA only when there is no native element for what you are building, such as a tab set, a combobox, a tree, or a live region.
What is the difference between aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby?▾
All three influence what a screen reader says, but they play different roles. aria-labelledby sets the accessible name by pointing at the id of visible text already on the page, and it wins over every other naming source. aria-label sets the accessible name from a string you write in the attribute, and it is for controls that have no visible text, such as an icon-only button. aria-describedby does not set the name at all; it adds an extra description, announced after the name, and is meant for hints, formatting instructions, or error messages. A good rule: prefer visible text referenced by aria-labelledby, use aria-label only when there is no visible text, and use aria-describedby for the supporting detail. Note also that aria-label and aria-labelledby are ignored on generic elements such as a plain div or span that has no interactive or landmark role.
Does aria-hidden remove an element from the keyboard tab order?▾
No, and this is one of the most damaging ARIA mistakes. aria-hidden="true" removes an element and everything inside it from the accessibility tree, so a screen reader will not announce it, but it does nothing to the visual display or the keyboard tab order. If you put aria-hidden on a link, a button, or any container that holds focusable controls, a keyboard user can still Tab onto those controls, but the screen reader stays silent, so a blind keyboard user lands on a control that seemingly does not exist. Never place aria-hidden on a focusable element or on an ancestor of one. If you genuinely need to hide interactive content, remove it from the tab order too, using the hidden attribute, display:none, or the inert attribute, all of which hide it from sight, from the accessibility tree, and from focus at once.
Do I still need semantic HTML if I use ARIA?▾
Yes, more than ever. ARIA sits on top of HTML and only patches the accessibility tree; it does not replace the structure, behavior, and defaults that semantic HTML provides. Headings, lists, landmarks, form labels, buttons, and links carry meaning and behavior that assistive technology, browsers, and search engines all rely on, and that ARIA cannot fully reproduce. The most robust and maintainable pattern is semantic HTML as the foundation, with ARIA added only to fill the specific gaps native elements cannot, such as the state of a custom widget or an announcement in a live region. If you find yourself rebuilding a native element out of divs and ARIA, that is usually a sign to step back and use the native element.
Will automated tools catch my ARIA mistakes?▾
They catch some, but not the most important ones. Scanners such as axe and WAVE reliably flag ARIA that is invalid or broken: misspelled attributes, non-existent role values, aria-labelledby or aria-describedby pointing at ids that do not exist, required parent or child roles that are missing, and aria-hidden on a focusable element. What they cannot judge is ARIA that is valid but wrong: a role="button" on something that should be a link, an aria-label that contradicts the visible text, or a state such as aria-expanded that your JavaScript never updates. Those only surface when a person tests the page with a keyboard and a screen reader and inspects the accessibility tree in the browser developer tools. Automated testing is a first pass for ARIA, never the last word.
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