Re: (WCAG 2.1) Do we want to replace ​"programmatically determined link context" in 2.4.4 with "Accessible Name"?

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
>
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