Re: AccName question

Hey Bryan.

The HTML-AAM covers HTML-specific name calculation. See the rules
beginning here:
https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/#accessible-name-and-description-computation

HTH.
--joanie

On 09/11/2018 01:52 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> Hi,
> I received the following feedback, and I wanted to confirm we covered these in our review of AccName 1.1 during the review.
> 
> . Your script doesn't seem to provide an acc name for input type submit with no value attribute supplied.  Browser's default to "submit".  The same might be true for other buttons like reset.  
> . I believe when value is set on input type buttons it is also not shown by your script.  
> . No accessible name is shown for the span element.
> 
> The last one seems clear to me, as with div, divs and spans with no role have no accessible name as we discussed.
> 
> What about the others? The type attribute is not part of the AccName spec, nor is the value attribute, yet browsers are using these regardless.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> Level Access, Inc.
> Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.LevelAccess.com
> 
> 

Received on Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:10:06 UTC