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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 16, 2017 7:07AM

> The whole set of documents/specs around accessible name and accessible description are, to put it mildly, confusing and obtuse. Lots of overlapping, cross-referencing separate docs

Yes, and the language about concatenation can trip up some people as well. There are also a number of ambiguities that need to be cleared up. For example, what happens with aria-label="" (null) or an aria-label=" " (a space or non-breakable space)? Is a space the accessible or name or does the algorithm consider that there is no valid aria-label and move on to the next step?

There are also a number of edge cases around sub-tree and referenced content that is hidden with different techniques and don't forget to include pseudo content as well!

> In the case of links, I'd recommend looking at https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/#a-element

I'd second this as a great resource.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
Chief Accessibility Officer
SSB BART Group 
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