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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: May 7, 2012 5:20PM

aria-label is working with VoiceOver on iOS 5.0.1 and OS X Lion.

aria-label image example

http://yaccessibilityblog.com/examples/images/image-aria-test.html

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
Deque Systems
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On May 7, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Ryan Hemphill
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> 2 cents on a technical note:
>>
>> I'd like to mention that aria-label is (at least for now) a bad idea when
>> it comes to VoiceOver. I've seen cases where there is a huge and ugly lag
>> time - I don't recommend it.
>
> Seems odd. Do you have a test case that illustrates this?
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> > >