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RE: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation

From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 00:40:30 -0700
Cc: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com>, Ryan Doherty <rdoherty@mozilla.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Message-Id: <CA4ECAB8-D714-493A-A158-AE34C056B9DD@apple.com>
To: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
On May 19, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Schnabel, Stefan wrote:

> I want to ask an heretic question:
>
> Who says that a text node referenced by "aria-labelledby" MUST/SHALL/ 
> HAS
> TO be visible?


No one, but there isn't much point in using aria-labelledby if you're  
gonna hide the label. In that case, it'd be easier to use aria-label  
or @title.

 From the spec:
If the label text is visible on screen, authors SHOULD use aria- 
labelledby and SHOULD NOT use aria-label. Use aria-label only if the  
interface is such that it is not possible to have a visible label on  
the screen.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#aria-label
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#aria-labelledby
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