Re: aria-label warning

The issue that raises the warning is that the aria-label is no a span which
in itself has no semantics and therefore may not be announced. There is
discussion in the ARIA working group about disallowing aria-label on a
range of elements (including span) one method to ensure that the aria-label
is announced is to apply a role to the span, for example
  <span aria-label="contém submenu" role="img">▼</spa

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 15:46, Jorge Fernandes <jorge.fernandes@ama.pt>
wrote:

> At selo.usabilidade.gov.pt the HTML element:
>
> <span aria-label=“contém submenu”>▼</span>
>
> My goal was to avoid the reading of ▼ and replace it by the content of
> aria-label. Visually, the sub-menu is represented by the char ▼ and to
> assistive technologies get the accessible name in the aria-label. Is this
> incorrect?
>
> got a warning of misuse !?
>
> Warning: Possible misuse of aria-label. (If you disagree with this
> warning, file an issue report
> <https://github.com/validator/validator/issues/new> or send e-mail to
> www-validator@w3.org.)
>
>    1. From line 72, column 92; to line 72, column 126
>    " >Aderir <span aria-label="contém submenu" >▼</spa
>
>
>
>
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