Do text nodes, e.g. paragraphs have an "Accessible Name"

Dear Interest Group Members,

I have always thought of an "accessible name" as required content for an interactive thing like a button or a checkbox or slider, etc.

Do text elements like paragraphs, headings, list items have accessible names, that is if there is no added aria-label attribute.

Developers on our team are abstracting / simplifying our current API that builds accessibility into our interactive simulations. The plan is to make the API very simple, like everything gets an accessible name. This seemed a little odd to me, as I have never thought of a paragraph as having an accessible name.

Do text nodes have accessible names by default?

Taliesin


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Taliesin L. Smith
talilief@gmail.com 
taliesin.smith@colorado.edu 

Inclusive Design Research Specialist
PhET Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder