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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Jun 26, 2019 10:21AM

Hi Emily,

I agree that "More" on its own is not fully descriptive.

You do need to have "More" as part of the accessible name though. Because that is what is visible on screen, this is what users of voice activation software will likely speak when they want to activate that control - "click more". As long as "more" is somewhere in the name, Dragon will make the match. This is actually a WCAG 2.1 level A requirement under SC 2.5.3 Label in Name. The accessible name should either be the same as, or include, the visible text.

Then you need to add something to indicate that it is links to sections. So you could use the accessible name "More sections". You won't need "Additional" because "More" covers that. You could argue that "More sections" doesn't actually get across that it is more *links* to sections so you might decide to use "More links to sections" but that seems a bit cumbersome and I think unnecessary. Users would probably guess that "More sections" will show links.

Mark Magennis
Skillsoft | mobile: +353 87 60 60 162
Accessibility Specialist