Deprecated ARIA attribute

Silktide checks your pages for ARIA attributes that the standard has deprecated. These attributes remain in the specification only for backward compatibility and should no longer be used.

Why this matters

The deprecated attributes - aria-grabbed and aria-dropeffect, from the original drag-and-drop design - were never reliably supported by , so they give authors a false sense that a drag-and-drop interaction has been made accessible when in practice nothing is announced. Leaving them in place hides the real work: making the interaction operable without a mouse.

How to fix it

Remove the deprecated attributes.
Make the drag-and-drop interaction genuinely accessible instead:
- Provide a keyboard alternative for every move, such as "Move up" and "Move down" buttons or a cut-and-paste command pattern.
- Announce the outcome of each move with a (aria-live="polite"), so users hear what changed.

<!-- Problem: deprecated, and announces nothing in practice -->
<li draggable="true" aria-grabbed="false">Item one</li>

<!-- Fix: a keyboard-operable alternative -->
<li>Item one <button aria-label="Move Item one up">\u2191</button></li>

How Silktide tests this

Find every element on the page that carries at least one aria- attribute.
Report each use of an attribute deprecated by ARIA 1.1 and later: aria-grabbed and aria-dropeffect.

Attributes that are invalid rather than deprecated are reported by Prohibited ARIA attribute.

Troubleshooting

This check reports nothing even though I expect findings

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