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Role (ARIA)
An ARIA role is an HTML attribute that tells assistive technology what kind of widget an element is — button, dialog, tablist, menuitem — when the native HTML element does not communicate that role semantically; ARIA defines over 70 roles in the WAI-ARIA 1.2 specification.
About Role (ARIA)
First rule of ARIA: do not use ARIA. If a button is a <button>, do not add role="button". Roles are only for when the native element does not exist or cannot be used.
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