Re: Appropriate use of aria labels

Hi Steve, why can’t you use aria-label on links?Edition

On Thursday, 8 April 2021, Steve Green <steve.green@testpartners.co.uk>
wrote:

> That approach will not work because you cannot use “aria-label” attributes
> on links. We recommend using hidden text instead. There are a number of
> ways of implementing hidden text, but most people use the CSS “clip”
> technique because it works with LTR and RTL languages. Floating the text
> and giving it a large negative left margin works fine for LTR languages,
> but cannot be used with RTL languages.
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> Steve Green
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> Managing Director
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> Test Partners Ltd
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> *From:* Louise Lister <Louise.Lister@iop.org>
> *Sent:* 08 April 2021 11:28
> *To:* w3c-wai-ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Appropriate use of aria labels
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> Hi all,
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> Sorry I have another one!  I’ll try and mute down a bit after this one as
> I already have a lot to mull over!
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> We have some links on our site that are repeated (like everyone else). In
> the two examples below, is the gold standard to have an aria label in the
> way described:
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>    1. You have a category news page which aggregates text snippets next
>    to a stack of ‘read more’ CTAs for different news pages sitting beneath it.
>     Here’s instead of someone tabbing through and hearing ‘read more, read
>    more …’ for all the links, when you tabbed through you’d have an aria label
>    that read out ‘read more about 'headline of news article x', so you’d have
>    something more descriptive for a screen reader?
>    2. You have side panel and header/footer items with repeated links
>    such as *privacy policy*, or *awards*, or *about*. Here if the 1 to 2
>    word item is not obvious you would use a longer aria label to describe it.
>    For example, ‘read more about the history of organisation x’.
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> It’s a bit easier with editorial content (in the body copy) because you
> can make the hyperlinks specific and descriptive.
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> With kind regards
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> Louise
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