Re: Span with aria-label

On 19/10/2018 07:17, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> If the span element is accessible, then aria-label will define its 
> accessible name. So I'm not exactly sure what you mean whether 
> aria-label can replace the inner text. What developer expectations are?

I'm not sure this is the case? In practice it seems that aria-label (and 
aria-labelledby) do not tend to do this for text level elements and/or 
elements without explicit roles [1].

Léonie
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#label-support



> 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 2:15 AM Aaron Leventhal <aleventhal@google.com 
> <mailto:aleventhal@google.com>> wrote:
> 
>     This comes up here and there. Developers sometimes think a <span>
>     with an aria-label will replace the inner text with the aria-label.
> 
>     It would be good to clarify how this is exposed and what the screen
>     reader experience should be.
> 
>     Aaron
> 

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