: No, ARIA Role attributes have not been deprecated in HTML5; The element name/role name redundancy is to provide a fallback for user agents that do not support ARIA role attributes. The fallback

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No, ARIA Role attributes have not been deprecated in HTML5; The element name/role name redundancy is to provide a fallback for user agents that do not support ARIA role attributes. The fallback (graceful degradation) "fills the gaps in support for HTML5 semantics as ARIA is more robustly supported by most modern browsers and assistive technology"

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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: When to use an ARIA role

You can read more here: www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/host_languages#host_general_conflict_header html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#wai-aria www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/

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