Re: Accessibility of Permalinks

On Mar 28, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:

> The ARIA recommendation [1] has permalinks embedded throughout.  They don't seem to have any sort of special 'aria' landmarks that an AT might use.  Is there something we should be doing in that respect?  I am developing an extension to ReSpec for permalinks, and I would like them to be "accessible".


Heh. Looks like the spec was using @title instead of @aria-label. VoiceOver speaks these without issue, but this might cause Jaws, NVDA, or Orca to speak, "number", "hash", or "pound" instead of the link title. 

	<a href="#abstract" title="Permalink for Abstract">#</a>

ReSpec should use:

	<a href="#abstract" aria-label="Permalink for Abstract">#</a>

Where "Abstract" is the unique heading text, of course.

James

Received on Friday, 28 March 2014 21:32:51 UTC