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A11y: show computed label

Open argyleink opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

argyleink avatar Mar 20 '19 17:03 argyleink

From what I've recently learned, different screen readers announce different things, and computing the accessible name ourselves could get complicated. In the future, the Accessibility Object Model (AOM) would help expose a consistent API, but it looks like the AOM isn't ready yet (still behind a flag for Chrome). That said, there are basic generalities. Or maybe we could find something in how the Accessibility panel in Chrome already shows the computed name for inspiration: image

hchiam avatar Jun 24 '21 00:06 hchiam

Nice, different readers do announce different things, so maybe this issue is a "wont fix" because it's better to surface all the labels and information (like the a11y tip does already) so the user of visbug can see the totality of potential label information instead of our attempt at a computed value.

thoughts on keeping things as is and closing this issue? thanks for investigating!

argyleink avatar Jun 24 '21 16:06 argyleink

i think we can leave this open and watch the aom repo for changes: https://github.com/WICG/aom/blob/gh-pages/caniuse.md

hchiam avatar Jun 25 '21 19:06 hchiam