RE: Accname question regarding self-references

“where a component needs to augment an input's label with invisible text?”

What about the following?

<span id="nameId">Visible Name</span>
<input aria-labelledby="nameId" aria-description="Invisible Description" type="text">

Doesn’t this already do that?


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/>

From: Carolyn MacLeod <Carolyn_MacLeod@ca.ibm.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:05 AM
To: public-aria@w3.org
Subject: RE: Accname question regarding self-references

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

How could an author achieve this without either using the visually-hidden hack, or invalid "aria-label on span" code that happens to still work?

Here are 2 possible "work-arounds" that I tried, but I can't think of any others (could easily be missing something):
https://carmacleod.github.io/playground/self-ref-aria-label.html?ver=1


The work-arounds achieve the goal (accessible name is "The Label ariaLabel" in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari), but they are not very elegant work-arounds, and they necessarily involve growing another element to "solve" the "problem".

James, can you describe a concrete example (or two) where a component needs to augment an input's label with invisible text? I'm guessing there must be many, but I think 2 compelling concrete examples would be useful here.

Car

----- Original message -----
From: "Carolyn MacLeod" <Carolyn_MacLeod@ca.ibm.com<mailto:Carolyn_MacLeod@ca.ibm.com>>
To: public-aria@w3.org<mailto:public-aria@w3.org>
Cc: faulkner.steve@gmail.com<mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, nurthen@adobe.com<mailto:nurthen@adobe.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Accname question regarding self-references
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2021 10:13 AM


Steve,

> link to the issue?

Seems to be this one: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1159567<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bugs.chromium.org_p_chromium_issues_detail-3Fid-3D1159567&d=DwMGaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=mbz1_iU8T6MdlVHlwCsQ2yWfa6mLMjMBLLUcYDOCTk0&s=cDpvq2wEj5DbZQRgNKm35iyXFl-JlRhECRq808QeLmQ&e=>

Car
----- Original message -----
From: David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com<mailto:david@can-adapt.com>>
To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com<mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com>>
Cc: James Nurthen <nurthen@adobe.com<mailto:nurthen@adobe.com>>, ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org<mailto:public-aria@w3.org>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Accname question regarding self-references
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2021 7:15 AM


I would say A

ACCNAME would be

"The Label AriaLabel"

I'm sorry I've looked at this sentence 3 times and am scratching my head.

"the self-reference is ignored because the root node has already been processed when it was also the ‘current node’."

Cheers,
David MacDonald



CanAdapt Solutions Inc.
Mobile:  613.806.9005

LinkedIn <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_davidmacdonald100&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=NBN9ZCXTg3LP6bawS00P8ksp6RnPK87Tn7pCznIOfBI&s=Tzt3XsvbJaloPRk0OuIYESpsEy76Vfy2OdUtKb_c0E4&e=>

twitter.com/davidmacd<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__twitter.com_davidmacd&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=NBN9ZCXTg3LP6bawS00P8ksp6RnPK87Tn7pCznIOfBI&s=5Ycs-lpUNg-GTMPrqfNk3l90K4CrAzFliUrtQhQ9GeE&e=>

GitHub<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_DavidMacDonald&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=NBN9ZCXTg3LP6bawS00P8ksp6RnPK87Tn7pCznIOfBI&s=VwGW0VJWdBvu46hLLpiIZ1DTvkqWDNkcWcvjcN0qvzM&e=>

www.Can-Adapt.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.can-2Dadapt.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=NBN9ZCXTg3LP6bawS00P8ksp6RnPK87Tn7pCznIOfBI&s=bJLs7weIPyYaPh9NruWKqIJ-PK-jyKTAkuS3Jmp7ZG0&e=>



  Adapting the web to all users
            Including those with disabilities

If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.davidmacd.com_disclaimer.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=NBN9ZCXTg3LP6bawS00P8ksp6RnPK87Tn7pCznIOfBI&s=F3MJYOTvxkMuWH0WQHLOW_CKLbugjvafuQjqddIirYg&e=>

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 3:57 AM Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com<mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com>> wrote:
We are having a debate in a Chrome issue about the following.

link to the issue?
--

Regards

SteveF
Accessibility is political
Working for the web<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_stevefaulkner_status_940835584410574850&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=7pxjQj6Sn7GadcQXUI8qdHzQ7owon0mR-h863iCnxZc&m=NBN9ZCXTg3LP6bawS00P8ksp6RnPK87Tn7pCznIOfBI&s=skSjY7FkAQQkU5A5LkwvmYX0KNxRRLByEP5bUEzg-VM&e=>,
anywhere and everywhere

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 01:30, James Nurthen <nurthen@adobe.com<mailto:nurthen@adobe.com>> wrote:

We are having a debate in a Chrome issue about the following.



According to the accessible name algorithm what should be the accessible name of the input in the below



<span id="label">The Label</span>

<input id="input" aria-label="ariaLabel" aria-labelledby="label input" value="the value">



Choices

  1.  “The label ariaLabel”
  2.  “The label the value”
  3.  “The label ariaLabel the value”
  4.  Something else…





James Nurthen (he/him)
Accessibility engineer

T 415 832 2734
nurthen@adobe.com<mailto:nurthen@adobe.com>

[Adobe]