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Re: NVDA not announcing aria-label on lists

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Oct 11, 2017 2:55AM

>
> I seem to remember in a separate thread recently that aria-label can only
> successfully be used on elements that have a role.
>
> Whilst I believe that <ul> and <ol> have an implied role, could it be that
> that's not 'enough' for NVDA?


In theory yes (the 2nd column of the table in ARIA in HTML
<http://w3c.github.io/html-aria/#docconformance>; lists the default implicit
ARIA semantics for each HTML element [Informative only], whether a feature
has implicit ARIA semantics [or something else] is defined in HTML
Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 <https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/>), it's up
to the screen reader whether they announce the aria-label for any given
element. For example JAWS announces aria-label on <ul>, but not on <li>. It
would be great if screen reader developers agreed on what/how they
supported such features... :-)


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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
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On 11 October 2017 at 09:31, Graham Armfield <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I seem to remember in a separate thread recently that aria-label can only
> successfully be used on elements that have a role.
>
> Whilst I believe that <ul> and <ol> have an implied role, could it be that
> that's not 'enough' for NVDA?
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
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