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Accessible React Components: Keyboard, Focus and ARIA Done Right

Practical patterns for dialogs, menus and forms that work for everyone, including screen reader users.

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What you will learn
  1. Native elements give you keyboard and screen reader support for free.
  2. Dialogs need focus management: move focus in, trap it, and restore it.
  3. ARIA describes what native HTML cannot; it never adds behaviour.

Accessibility is a quality bar, not a feature

Around one in six people lives with a disability, and many more use keyboards, zoom or screen readers some of the time. An inaccessible component is simply a broken component for them.

The good news: most accessibility comes from using the right HTML element and managing focus carefully.

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  1. Start with native elements
  2. A dialog that manages focus
  3. Test it like a user
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