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From: Mallory
Date: Jul 23, 2019 1:27AM

If you think about it, if you have big cards with lots of text and all that text is actionable link-text...
that would absolutely suck for speech recognition.

The chances that any word you speak could match something inside a clickable is high. Someone can convince me otherwise with a good argument but right now I would consider that an anti-pattern.

For cards I always keep the link text itself short (and it's what you see get focus with keyboard) and use JS to make most of the card clickable. Specifically I want the click listener on the div/whatever to trigger a click on the link, rather than doing its own navigation.

One issue I've run into with that is cards with stuff like event information-- when I'm on a slow (say... event/conference) network and I want to copy some date or venue address from the card without clicking it, that's hard, because to highlight with the mouse, I'm clicking it.

cheers,
Mallory

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, at 6:37 PM, Mark Magennis wrote:
> I think that's debatable Jonathan. SC 2.5.3 talks about "the words
> which visually label a component" and goes on to say "it is first
> necessary to determine which text on the screen should be considered a
> label for any given control". I don't see anything that explicitly
> states that this must include all of the text on or within the bounds
> of the control and to me it intuitively feels like it shouldn't. Is
> there any more guidance on this from WAI or a general consensus that
> has arisen from discussion?
>
> Mark
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> Mark Magennis
> Skillsoft | mobile: +353 87 60 60 162
> Accessibility Specialist
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