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

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Feb 13, 2015 4:42PM

The following link too may be of interest:
http://www.deque.com/blog/text-links-practices-screen-readers/
Thanks,
Sailesh



On 2/13/15, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> It would be nice to include ZoomText and/or Dragon
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> 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 good stuff, note you are pointing to an outdated version of the acc API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
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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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>> > Chief Accessibility Officer
>> > SSB BART Group
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