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Re: Accessible name calculation for links - test set and results

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Feb 13, 2015 9:44AM

Hi Jon,
good stuff, note you are pointing to an outdated version of the acc API doc
,which includes a bug ("Otherwise use the summary attribute")
here is the latest version reference:
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#a-element

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;

On 13 February 2015 at 16:34, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I've put together a test page with different samples to determine how
> different techniques for setting the accessible name and description for
> links are rendered by screen readers in different browsers with different
> navigation methods. The results are also provided. Aria-label is the most
> consistently rendered method and the accessible description is consistently
> not announced on navigation other than tab or swipe.
>
> https://labs.ssbbartgroup.com/index.php/Accessible_Name_Link_Test
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jonathan
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