RE: New SC: Meaningful element name

> Basically any element whose name is  exposed to AT will be covered. But as the first email stated, while other SCs (1.1.1, 2.4.4, 2.4.6)  cover image buttons, links, form labels and the like some elements are not covered by any SC.

Since SC 2.4.6 covers visual labels and headings -- I'd think it would be a good SC to expand to cover a descriptive accessible name.

Jonathan 


-----Original Message-----
From: Sailesh Panchang [mailto:spanchang02@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 8:18 AM
To: Sailesh Panchang; WCAG; Alastair Campbell
Subject: Re: New SC: Meaningful element name

Alastair,
Basically any element whose name is  exposed to AT will be covered. But as the first email stated, while other SCs (1.1.1, 2.4.4, 2.4.6)  cover image buttons, links, form labels and the like some elements are not covered by any SC.
Those that are already covered by an existing SC will automatically meet this SC too. 
An ARIA landmark does not always need a name- the role:  role=main or role=navigation is sufficient. If an element is named and is not covered by any other SC this one will catch it.
BTW this can support technique ARIA11.
Sailesh

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On Mon, 7/18/16, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: New SC: Meaningful element name
 To: "Sailesh Panchang" <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>, "WCAG" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
 Date: Monday, July 18, 2016, 7:38 AM
 
 Sailesh wrote:
 
     Proposed SC: Element name exposed to assistive  technology is
     meaningful and describes element's
 purpose.  Level AA
  
 That sounds good for the case of specific elements that need  it (e.g. nav with aria-label), but might need tightening up  to exclude other elements.
 
 I seem to have broken my accessibility inspector at the  moment, but Isn’t an element name exposed for many  elements? It implies that you’d have to name pretty much  everything, which probably isn’t what you intended?
 
 Cheers,
 
 -Alastair

Received on Monday, 18 July 2016 13:11:46 UTC