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Re: form select dropdown - label, title or aria?

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Sep 8, 2015 3:42PM

On 8 September 2015 at 22:52, Aaron Cannon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Still, you're probably right, and for the sake of compatibility, she
> should probably use both a title and an aria-label.
>

then you get the accessible name from aria label and accessible description
repeated from the title.

In the abssence of any other source of an accessible name for a control
title works well across browsers and AT.
aria-label is the more semantically correct method and also works well, but
older browsers (IE< 9 or 10) don't support.

details of how it works in browsers are available:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-aam-1.0/#accessible-name-and-description-calculation
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Regards

SteveF
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