- From: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:11:13 -0400
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Patrick, The page you reference clearly distinguishes accessible-name and accessible-description as two properties. I do not see how you conclude, "title, aria-describedby etc all form part of what's taken into consideration for the accessible name calculation". The name is akin to the label or element's identifier. The description is supplementary / advisory / related info that may qualify the element but the description is not included in the name as you seem to suggest. David's opening email too only refers to aria-label / labelledby ... attributes that only name an element. What info a screen reader's links list presents is a feature of the AT. It may expose only the name or name+description or allow users to choose if they wish to see name+description. But this should not influence the need to re-word an SC. I really do not understand what problem or accessibility gap with 2.4.4 / 2.4.9 is being tackled by this thread. If readers do not get what the SC means, the understanding doc serves as a guide. If that is not sufficiently clear, it may need improvement but the solution to this does not require re-wording the SCs. Thanks and kind regards, Sailesh Panchang On 7/19/16, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/07/2016 15:41, Sailesh Panchang wrote: >> Plus another one for Greg's comment. >> One can also use title or aria-describedby to qualify what the >> linked text "Read more" relates to ... that is not an accessible >> name. > > Just on this one point, note that title, aria-describedby etc all form > part of what's taken into consideration for the accessible name > calculation of an HTML element - see > https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aapi/#accessible-name-and-description-calculation > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke > > www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke > http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com > twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke > >
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