On 28 April 2014 18:19, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>wrote:
> Personally I prefer the explicit association method as well, since it
> makes it possible to programmatically set label text within dynamic
> applications irrespective of where the content is located.
I believe the addition of a label role came about as a result of the
original suggestion to add a caption role to provide a mapping for the IA2
caption. The implemented role in Firefox for figcaption is IA2 caption.
<figure>
<figcaption role="caption"> caption text </figcaption>
</figure>
I don't see the need for requiring the use of aria-labelledby in this
situation.
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Regards
SteveF
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