Patrick H. Lauke on Nostr: in today's #a11y #wtf ... i dared look into how `<progress>` and its evil ARIA twin ...
in today's #a11y #wtf ... i dared look into how `<progress>` and its evil ARIA twin `role="progressbar"` are announced by actual browser/SR combinations. and the results are ... not good. will decant into a small article, but the tl;dr for now is: ideally, use `aria-valuetext` (even for the native `<progress>` element, in most cases), as things are whack...
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