RE: Accessible Name

Hi David,

That was also my proposal at: https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/371#issuecomment-329958626 and https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/371#issuecomment-331374647


Maybe add your suggestion comment over there or do we have another place for these remarks?

Cheers!
Jake


From: David MacDonald [mailto:david@can-adapt.com]
Sent: donderdag 5 oktober 2017 14:50
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Accessible Name


A proposal was made to strike the wore "Accessible" for "Accessible Name" in the SC of the same name.

"Where an active control has a visible label, the accessible name for the control includes the text string used for its visible label.

The rational for this was sound. It was to unify the definition with our existing overlapping term "name". I'd like to explore another possible way to reconcile the two. My reason for this is that "Accessible Name" is now the most common term rather than "name"

Within our charter, I think we can do the following, simply add the word (accessible name) after the term in the definition. Perhaps Michael can confirm this.

name (accessible name)
     text by which software can identify a component within Web content to the user
...

I think it could make the new SC easier to understand which has value.

Cheers,
David MacDonald



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