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Missing/incorrect ARIA labels across the NextDNS website

Hi again,

I am a screen-reader user, and I would like to report some small difficulties I experience with the Next DNS website in hopes they can be resolved. I really love using the service, but these accessibility glitches downgrades the usability quite considerably for blind/visually impaired SR users.

I'd really appreciate it if this could be looked into! I'll put a list at the bottom of this post of all the ones I personally came across. If you'd like to test this yourself, NVDA is a free and open source screen-reader for Windows available from NV Access.

For context, an ARIA label is an invisible, imbedded piece of text that helps a screen-reader identify the purpose of any HTML element. Here is a doc from Mozilla.
ARIA Labels 

* The social links on the front page have an ARIA label that my screen-reader detects as "NextDNS" for each one. This makes it impossible for me to know which link leads to which channel without activating the link.
* The delete/remove buttons are missing ARIA labels altogether. It would be useful to have a label here to know what the control would do without activating it. This includes beside TLDs on the privacy page, blocklists/NTR on the security page, websites on the allow/deny list pages, and websites on the parental control page.
* One of the two controls on the 'setup' page near to the 'linked IP' section is missing an ARIA label.
* The controls on the settings page that allow you to expand more options, such as viewing blocked queries only.
* There may be more, but these are the only ones I have personally come across in my work flow. These are also on the desktop version of the site, and I do not know if any of the apps contain similar issues, though I would be happy to test if this was something the team were interested in.

I really do not wish this post to come off as hating on Next DNS. I really do love using the service. However, I am very passionate about digital accessibility and I believe that these improvements could make a huge difference to improving the site for a lot of people. :)

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