Re: What do you think about the use of aria-label on elements with no role?

I have an action to include a ~“generic” role which would be the default for div. Once we have that, we can adjust it to match the name computation accordingly so that generic gets name from contents only. 



> On Apr 6, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote:
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> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28413
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> Developers are confused about what should happen if you put an aria-label on an element with no role, like an empty <div> element. While most browsers do interpret the aria-label and expose it, some screen readers ignore it. For example:
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> <div aria-label="Label">Text</div>
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> Firefox exposes "Label" as the accName, but "Text" as the IAccessibleText, and Windows screen readers read out "Text". Safari+VoiceOver is different, VoiceOver reads out "Label".
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> Do you think the current Windows end-user behavior is correct, or not? Should we clarify the spec to make it crystal-clear that adding aria-label on any random element does not necessarily override that element's text, or should we change the current behavior?
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> Note that elements without an ARIA role can still get a label, it depends on computed role, not the ARIA role. As an example:
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> <h3 aria-label="ARIA Heading">Text Heading</h3>
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> Every browser and screen reader combination I tested read out "ARIA Heading" here, not "Text Heading".
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