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

Yeah - thanks Alastair and David. Good feedback both.
The reason I ask is that a lot of people will think that they can add 
just add ARIA to satisfy this SC
and in some cases, as David mentions for inputs, it may be doable but in 
others not.

Good catch both about the AccName and the label - and we don't want that 
to be overridden etc.

IMO We'll need to be clear in our materials about where ARIA 
anti-patterns would not satisfy this SC.

Thanks

Josh

David MacDonald wrote:
> > <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 <mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Josh,
>
>     If applied to inputs (as the SC requires), that would over-ride
>     the visible label, which is probably not what you intended?
>
>     It would also fall afoul of the new SC “Label in name”, unless the
>     visible label happened to be included.
>
>     Perhaps you meant the more general “Identify purpose” at AAA?
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     -Alastair
>
>     *From: *Joshue O Connor - InterAccess
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     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 *
>
>

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