Re: accessible name calculation for hidden labels

>
> note: limted testing of some current browser implementations  = do not
> produce accessible names from  labels with display:none or aria-hidden=true.
>

actually, this is not correct: (latest browsers on windows 10)
Chrome: neither results in acc name
Firefox: only aria-hidden true results in an accessible name
IE 11:both result in an accessible name

test file: http://codepen.io/stevef/pen/PPzLdV

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SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>

On 22 September 2015 at 16:19, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It is unclear to me, from reading the accname spec [1] whether the
> following markup  examples should result in an accessible name for a control
>
> label with aria-hidden=true
>
> <label for="test" aria-hidden="true"> name </label>
> <input type="text" id="test">
>
> label CSS set to display:none
>
> <label for="test1" style="display:none"> name </label>
> <input type="text" id="test1">
>
> note: limted testing of some current browser implementations  = do not
> produce accessible names from  labels with display:none or aria-hidden=true.
>
> [1] rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/accname-aam/accname-aam.html
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> Regards
>
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>
>