Re: Use of ARIA to satisfy 'Identify common purpose' SC

> <div id="A widget that does x" role="region" aria-label="Useful
description of that purpose">

I don't think its viable. First off its not on a form input... but more
importantly, assuming it was, tThe AccName should be reserved for the NAME
so unless its identical to the purpose that would be a failure of 4.1.2 and
1.3.1

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> Hi Josh,
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> If applied to inputs (as the SC requires), that would over-ride the
> visible label, which is probably not what you intended?
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> It would also fall afoul of the new SC “Label in name”, unless the visible
> label happened to be included.
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> Perhaps you meant the more general “Identify purpose” at AAA?
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> If so, I think that would be a method, but you’d have to be careful it
> wasn’t overriding the AccName. In practice, I think it would have to match
> a public vocabulary, the understanding needs a bit of fleshing out there as
> I can’t point you to one yet.
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> There was a thought to apply general explanations to certain elements, but
> it went down the route of “programmatically determined”, so needs to be
> machine readable.
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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> *From: *Joshue O Connor - InterAccess
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> Hi all,
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> To follow on from the (very useful but long) previous thread on this.
> I've a simple question. Can we suggest the use of ARIA  labels etc
> satisfy the 'Identify Purpose' SC?
>
> Something like:
>
> <div id="A widget that does x" role="region" aria-label="Useful
> description of that purpose">
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Joshue O Connor
> Director *| InterAccess.ie *
>