RE: aria-labelledby pointing to an element with aria-hidden=”true”

Thanks! This was exactly I was looking for. It’s not in the ARIA spec but the mapping guide…

>> that and include *hidden text* as ..

A even sharper one would be clarifying additionally by which means hidden text was hidden (there quite a few, aria-hidden is just one of them).

If this reads

>> that and include *text hidden with any known method (aria-hidden, CSS, display=none etc* as ..

we are fine.


-          Stefan

From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
Sent: Donnerstag, 13. April 2017 13:59
To: Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
Cc: public-aria@w3.org
Subject: Re: aria-labelledby pointing to an element with aria-hidden=”true”

refer to Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1

http://w3c.github.io/aria/accname-aam/accname-aam.html#step2

Comment:
By default, assistive technologies<http://w3c.github.io/aria/accname-aam/accname-aam.html#dfn-assistive-technologies> do not relay hidden information, but an author can explicitly override that and include hidden text as part of the accessible name<http://w3c.github.io/aria/accname-aam/accname-aam.html#dfn-accessible-name> or accessible description<http://w3c.github.io/aria/accname-aam/accname-aam.html#dfn-accessible-description> by using aria-labelledby or aria-describedby.

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Regards

SteveF
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On 13 April 2017 at 12:49, Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com<mailto:stefan.schnabel@sap.com>> wrote:
I have a question to the group regarding aria-labelledby pointing to an element with aria-hidden=”true”.

Is that an allowed relation according to http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ ?

Also, http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-hidden and http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-labelledby give no clue about this so it seems to be OK.
I do not speak of better alternatives for respective use cases, just if the specification explicitely leaves that as a possible option.
Screen readers (Jaws) currently read information in nodes with aria-hidden=”true” associated with aria-labelledby when respective elements with that relation are focused.

Best Regards
Stefan