RE: (WCAG 2.1) Do we want to replace ​"programmatically determined link context" in 2.4.4 with "Accessible Name"?

Question: Do we currently have (or envision) a Success Criteria that mandates “links lists”? 

 

While super-useful to screen reader users, how do I, as a sighted non-screen-reader user get a similar construct in my user-agent? Or is it solely dependent on the Assistive Technology to provide this accommodation (shortcut/enhancement)? Is this *just* for blind users?

 

Once again, it seems like we are driving towards mandated patterns, and not abstracted functional requirements: If we want to see the ability to expose a list of links for all users (I could see this being a benefit to some cognitively challenged users as well) then whatever we write up must be achievable in such a way as to not be dependent on a specific pattern or software.

 

JF

 

From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca] 
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Subject: Re: (WCAG 2.1) Do we want to replace ​"programmatically determined link context" in 2.4.4 with "Accessible Name"?

 

The aria-describedby does not factor into accessible name calculation, only the accessible description calculation.  So it won't appear in a links list.

 

The Title will if there is no other Accessible Name.




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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk <mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk> > wrote:

On 19/07/2016 15:41, Sailesh Panchang wrote:

Plus another one for Greg's comment.
One can also use title or aria-describedby  to qualify what  the
linked text "Read more"  relates to ... that is not an accessible
name.


Just on this one point, note that title, aria-describedby etc all form part of what's taken into consideration for the accessible name calculation of an HTML element - see https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aapi/#accessible-name-and-description-calculation

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