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Re: Trying to Understand 2.5.3

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 3, 2019 1:45PM

My proposal was essentially to treat this situation as an assistive
technology problem, speech recognition software should implement a way
to display the accessible name of operable controls on the screen when
they are provided with aria-label, aria-labelledby or title, so I
didn't really see how this new SC really adds anything useful and
proposed to drop it or make it a level AAA.


On 9/3/19, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 03/09/2019 18:09, Mallory wrote:
>
>> The fact that visual designers may cry out "oh noes, our precious precious
>> heiroglyphic beauty is befouled with hideous unclean texts!" could make it
>> a AAA, sure.
>
> It's also more the idea of "if we make this a normative SC, we're
> essentially going to insta-fail 2/3rds of the internet one way or
> another" that makes this a dangerous proposition, not just sparing the
> soulds of designers...
>
> P
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