Digital Hall of Fame ARIA-Checked Audit for Inductee Filters
A school's digital hall of fame filter panel — the controls that let a visitor narrow the inductee roster by sport, decade, or award category — relies on a correct checked state announcement to be operable by screen reader users. When a visitor checks "Basketball" to filter the roster, a screen reader user needs to hear "Basketball, checkbox, checked" to confirm the filter is active; without that update, the visitor has no reliable way to know whether their interaction succeeded. aria-checked is the state attribute that communicates that confirmation. A digital hall of fame ARIA-checked audit examines every custom filter checkbox on the interface to confirm the attribute is present, that it carries the correct value — true, false, or mixed — and that the value updates accurately after every visitor interaction. This guide walks school IT staff, athletic directors, and accessibility coordinators through every step of that audit, explains how it differs from prior selected, pressed, and invalid-state audits, and provides a practical remediation framework. What aria-checked Does — and Why Inductee Filters Need It aria-checked is a state attribute defined in the WAI-ARIA 1.2 specification that tells assistive technology whether a control is currently checked, unchecked, or in a mixed state. It applies to any element that models the behavior of a checkbox or radio button but is built from non-native HTML elements — typically <div>, <span>, <li>, or <button> elements assigned a checkbox-type role.
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