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- Sara Souedian gives her thoughts on why we need a native
<search>HTML element. This would be syntactic sugar for<div role="search">, like we already have for<main>/<div role="main">. - The first rule of ARIA is to not use it if there is a native HTML element with the semantics of the required behaviour already built in. It could be argued that ARIA should be phased out, “with HTML replacing ARIA bit by bit until its services are no longer required”.
- Search is such a common feature on websites that making it easier to apply accessible semantics can only be a plus. With it, it should be even easier for users of assistive technologies to jump to the search section of the page.
- There is a related GitHub issue on the whatwg/html repository, calling for a HTML search element.
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