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

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From: Diane.Tomlins@hcahealthcare.com
Date: Sep 9, 2015 12:35PM

On 8 September 2015 at 3:52pm, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:
>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.

Thanks for the feedback and the link.

For the sites we're currently building, we don't support anything below IE9 anyway (and that will change to 10 soon), and visitors will get an 'outdated browser' message if they land on our sites using an unsupported browser version, so they are notified immediately.

Given that, I think I'll go with the aria-label :)

Regards,
DianeT
(hope I did this right, it's been a really long time since I used a list like this)