Re: Inconsistencies in aria-label=" " and how this should be reflected in the naming calculation from Rich Schwerdtfeger on 2017-01-29 (public-aria@w3.org from January 2017)

From: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:28:47 -0600
To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
Cc: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, Alice Boxhall <aboxhall@google.com>, Marco Zehe <marco.zehe@gmail.com>, Alexander Surkov <asurkov@mozilla.com>, david bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
Message-Id: <F622EFD2-E077-4EAE-9EA5-6315C774A28B@gmail.com>

aria-label takes precedence

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> On Jan 27, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I've recently been updating my naming calculation tests, and the following is not consistent so I wanted to ask what is the expected behavior.
> 
> Markup:
> 
> <a href="#" aria-label=" ">test</a>
> 
> In IE11 and Chrome, the accessible name is " ", which is nonsensical.
> 
> In Firefox however the name is "test" which does make sense.
> 
> So which is technically valid and how should browsers be doing this correctly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> SSB BART Group, Inc.
> bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com
> 
> 
>

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