ah yes, I was wondering when someone would notice this, and that it's on all Fortune.com articles. I never bothered to check what they were doing, but it's really annoying when the visual text is overwritten by an `aria-label` of the URL, wonder what genius had that idea. My last article I read had this same issue, so my guess it's inserted recursively by the CMS. fortune.com/2024/06/23/microso…

I keep saying we need a way to just remove all ARIA. This is why. Nobody thinks it's a good idea, but then there's this crap. Not too long ago some Wordpress plugin was injecting “Undefined (opens in a new tab)" into articles. This is why we can't have nice things.

@simon The thing is... sometimes ARIA is essential. And while I'll grant that it's much easier to abuse ARIA, there are plenty of other ways you can make things suck for users who depend on accessibility semantics. Off-screen content gets abused quite often too and you don't need a drop of ARIA for that.

Oh I know how essential it is. I'm not saying we should auto-remove it. But what if AxsHammer had a "Kill all ARIA labels and roles" option? It would really fit the hammer mentality, but I would use it sometimes.

@simon Hmm. Other than role="application", what roles have you seen that break things so badly as to justify that? Totally hear you on labels though.

@simon Menu, menubar, menu item. If used incorrectly and without the proper nesting, these still throw off JAWS, VoiceOver on the Mac, and I’ve even seen NVDA go into some limbo state some time ago. Oh yeah, and tab without tablist parent. Especially when on an a tag with href attribute.