Re: Accessibility of Permalinks

Actually, we should keep @title for the tooltip, in addition to using @aria-label to override the label, which defaults to the "#" text contents.

	<a href="#abstract" aria-label="Permalink for Abstract" title="Permalink for Abstract">#</a>


On Mar 28, 2014, at 2:32 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
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>> The ARIA recommendation [1] has permalinks embedded throughout.  They don't seem to have any sort of special 'aria' landmarks that an AT might use.  Is there something we should be doing in that respect?  I am developing an extension to ReSpec for permalinks, and I would like them to be "accessible".
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> Heh. Looks like the spec was using @title instead of @aria-label. VoiceOver speaks these without issue, but this might cause Jaws, NVDA, or Orca to speak, "number", "hash", or "pound" instead of the link title. 
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> 	<a href="#abstract" title="Permalink for Abstract">#</a>
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> ReSpec should use:
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> 	<a href="#abstract" aria-label="Permalink for Abstract">#</a>
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> Where "Abstract" is the unique heading text, of course.
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> James
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