Digital Hall of Fame ARIA-Readonly Audit for Inductee Record Grids
A digital hall of fame that uses an ARIA grid pattern to display inductee records—letting visitors navigate rows with arrow keys, open profile cards, or interact with inline controls—creates a specific accessibility responsibility that a plain HTML table does not: communicating which cells are read-only. aria-readonly is the attribute that carries that signal to screen readers, telling a keyboard-plus-assistive-technology user that a cell is focusable and readable but not editable. A digital hall of fame aria readonly audit verifies that every non-editable role="gridcell" in an interactive inductee grid exposes that state correctly—and confirms that no unnecessary aria-readonly attributes have been added to plain HTML tables that do not require them. This guide gives school IT staff, athletics directors, and accessibility coordinators a complete step-by-step process for running that audit, including a decision table for when the attribute is required, how to test it with a screen reader, and how to prioritize remediation findings with a platform vendor. What aria-readonly Does — and When an Inductee Grid Needs It aria-readonly is an ARIA state property that communicates whether the value of an interactive element can be changed by the user. Its two valid values are "true" (read-only: focus and read, but not edit) and "false" (editable: the default for interactive elements that accept input).
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