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Re: when is the "title" attribute used in the accessible namecomputation?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 30, 2018 4:46PM

> The rationale is that including the title attribute in the accessible name calculation will benefit some people, but not enough that it can be considered sufficient.

What is your thinking here Steve? Why would the title as an accessible name not benefit enough people over something else like aria-label? We aren't talking about using it as a visual label or anything else -- just a programmatic name.

Jonathan