Re: How the W3C Text Alternative Computation Works from Steve Faulkner on 2015-12-22 (public-aria@w3.org from December 2015)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:39:06 +0000
To: "Gunderson, Jon R" <jongund@illinois.edu>
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@chromium.org>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>, "public-aria@w3.org" <public-aria@w3.org>
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On 22 December 2015 at 14:37, Gunderson, Jon R <jongund@illinois.edu> wrote:

> In this example the div also contains the INPUT element being labeled, so
> the value of the INPUT element is value attribute supposed to be excluded
> or included in the accessible name calculation?


hi Jon, the value attribute is not used in accessible name calculation for
input type=text

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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>

Received on Tuesday, 22 December 2015 14:40:13 UTC