Hi, We had a customer question our flagging of an element role=slider being for lack of an aria-valuenow. Their slider is a double-thumb one for specifying a low and high value. Instead of an aria-valuenow they specify an aria-valuetext="From 27 to 48" or whatever the two thumbs are set to. It seems that https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#slider contradicts https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/#slider The first clearly says Authors MUST set the aria-valuenow<https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#aria-valuenow> attribute. and that a missing aria-valuenow can trigger browser repair techniques. While the second says "If the value of aria-valuenow is not user-friendly, e.g., the day of the week is represented by a number, thearia-valuetext<https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#aria-valuetext> property is set to a string that makes the slider value understandable, e.g., "Monday". So basically, which is it? Should aria-valuenow be a soft requirement or a hard one from the perspective of conformance checkers? Thanks, Bryan Bryan Garaventa Principal Accessibility Architect Level Access, Inc. Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com<mailto:Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com> 415.624.2709 (o) www.LevelAccess.com<http://www.levelaccess.com/>
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