RE: Made a list of WCAG techniques to HTML5

[David wrote] ARIA-labelledby is also sufficient Aria7 , is that then you
have to put an id also on the anchor element itself and reference both the
anchor element and the heading... because there is concern that a blind
user could not identify the link text if someone refers to it...



I also have concerns with aria-label and aria-labelledby text overwriting
what is the on-screen link text.  If speech recognition technology were to
support an accessibility API and not the link text then users of speech
recognition might also have trouble using direct voice commands.  This may
also be an issue for users with low vision or cognitive disabilities where
one thing is highlighted on the screen but something else is announced by a
text-to-speech reading package.  We need to consider scenarios beyond blind
people using screen readers.



Jonathan



*From:* David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
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*Subject:* Made a list of WCAG techniques to HTML5



Thanks Mark...



Describedby works on a link in NVDA but for some reason JAWS repeats the
heading twice in IE, and doesn't work in JAWS with Firefox... on the other
hand aria label doesn't work in NVDA, yet.



The reason I recommend aria label is that the aria label text replaces the
anchor link text in the links list dialogue box which is a real bonus for
JAWS users... now they can use their tradition list of links are identify
the right one... not so with aria describedby.  I dropped a couple of text
files after the table.
http://davidmacd.com/WCAG/wcag-html5-techniques-review.html



 We don't have an ARIA describedby example on a link in the WCAG techniques
yet.



ARIA-labelledby is also sufficient Aria7 , is that then you have to put an
id also on the anchor element itself and reference both the anchor element
and the heading... because there is concern that a blind user could not
identify the link text if someone refers to it... but it certainly
sufficient if both refernces are used... just a little confusing and
finicky for webmasters who might scratch their head at the aria


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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Mark Sadecki <mark@w3.org> wrote:

Thanks for this very useful work, David.

I would suggest using aria-describedby for H80 and H81, assigning an ID to
the
relevant Heading and parent list element.  I think this results in the most
meaningful experience for a screen reader user.  I also think this is a
sufficient technique for H78 as well, given you can identify the fragment of
text that best describes the purpose of the link (could be the Heading, or
the
paragraph text in the example given.)

Mark


On 3/31/14, 12:10 PM, David MacDonald wrote:
> As we approach HTML5  techniques for WCAG, I went through the existing
> techniques. Dropped them in a table and made notes beside them. Anything
without
> notes I think can be an HTML5 technique by simply adding HTML5 in the
> applicability section. I took this opportunity to do a ROT exercise
(redundant,
> outdated, trivial) at the same time and made notes if I thought we should
remove
> or amend them.
>
> Out of 59 techniques, 13 techniques have notes on them. so 46 are ready
to go
> for HTML5.
>
> http://davidmacd.com/WCAG/wcag-html5-techniques-review.html
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> David MacDonald
>
>
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