Luckily I don't see any "encouragement to use aria" on that page you linked to, as that - and particular your example - goes directly against the first rule of

Luckily I don't see any "encouragement to use aria" on that page you linked to, as that - and particular your example - goes directly against the first rule of ARIA [1] (paraphrased: "only ever use ARIA if you can't use native HTML"). [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#rule1 https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#rule1