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Bug 26085 - accessible description shouldn't duplicate accessible name
Summary: accessible description shouldn't duplicate accessible name
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: ARIA
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Spec (show other bugs)
Version: Future
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
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Assignee: James Craig
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Reported: 2014-06-13 14:19 UTC by alexander surkov
Modified: 2018-05-03 20:36 UTC (History)
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Description alexander surkov 2014-06-13 14:19:16 UTC 
It seems there's no any use case where accessible description equal accessible name makes sense. AT need to have some code to process that. It'd be good if the UA takes care of it. For example

<button title="hello">hello</button>

currently it results in duping accessible description and name. It'd be good to have the spec advising the browser to not expose description when it was calculated equal to name.