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Re: aria-labelledby vs aria-activedescendant

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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Aug 22, 2011 8:24AM

I have neither info nor experience, but it's tickling a memory of struggling with CSS for UL/LI a (very) long time ago. I was trying to set something at the container level (UL) but it was not carrying through to the items inside that container (the LIs.) I remember thinking that perhaps it was because the UL has no content other than other elements. If true, then this could be tripping up your example: it can't find direct content to use the label with. I would try adding the aria-labelledby to the list items since that's what worked for my CSS problem.

(I assume you have a specific reason for not using the SELECT input, which screen readers know how to deal with.)

sb

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