[Bug 25371] [AAPI]: How to calculate the value for a label

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25371

--- Comment #7 from Jason Kiss <jason@accesscult.org> ---
(In reply to James Nurthen from comment #6)
> The accessible name calculation for text level elements seems incomplete.
> IMO for most of those elements the child text content should appear in the
> accessible name computation. This is not specified in the document at all.

Agreed.

> 
> Once this has been corrected we then need to decide whether title should
> override the child text node in the calculation. Generally in the aria spec
> it does not - however for abbr I believe maybe it should as title has
> different behaviour here to its behaviour on most other elements.

What do you think about breaking out the name calc for abbr and dfn and
indicating that @title overrides subtree, and for the remaining text level
elements, specify that name comes from subtree, and otherwise @title if no
usable subtree (admittedly a rare instance and likely author error)?

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Received on Sunday, 14 December 2014 21:59:44 UTC