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Bug 30112 - 4.3 Text Alternative Computation -- Including title attribute (as part of description computation) in Text Alternative Computation
Summary: 4.3 Text Alternative Computation -- Including title attribute (as part of des...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ARIA
Classification: Unclassified
Component: AccName AAM (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joseph Scheuhammer
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Reported: 2017-05-16 17:32 UTC by Devarshi Pant
Modified: 2018-05-25 16:14 UTC (History)
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Description Devarshi Pant 2017-05-16 17:32:20 UTC
Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/#mapping_additional_nd_te

Purpose: Consider including title attribute as part of the accessible description calculation besides aria-describedby.

Rationale Follows:
  
When using title attribute with valid label, label becomes the acc name and title gets appended to the label as acc description, with the output (Label [acc name] -> title). This is similar to when label and aria-describedby are used where the accumulated text is in the same order as when title was present, but replaced with the IDREF of aria-describedby (Label [acc name] -> aria-describedby [IDREF]). 

However, when both aria-describedby and title are present, aria-describedby takes precedence. Both JAWS and NVDA support the finding.

Is that a correct observation? If so, then please consider updating the following sections:

4.2 Description Computation (http://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/#mapping_additional_nd_description)-- include title attribute besides aria-describedby.

4.3.1 Terminology (http://www.w3.org/TR/accname-aam-1.1/#terminology) - under 2 B, a third bullet can be added to establish precedence level when title and aria-describedby are present.
Comment 1 Bryan Garaventa 2018-05-25 16:14:25 UTC
This issue has been moved to https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/24