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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 3, 2019 5:32PM

But if we always put the responsibility on the authors we'll never
make accessibility simple.
There are millions of people who write webpages, even with the rapidly
growing ranks of accessibility experts we're never going to make every
single one of those authors use proper ARIA and understand screen
reader and speech recognition interactions (the latest WebAIm study of
top million webpages found strong correlation between us of ARIA and
bad accessibility).
User agent vendors understand how web markup is processed (browsers)
and the needs of the end users (assistive technology vendors), they
can even work together through the W3C to develop the necessary
mechanisms by which accessible markup is translated to an accessible
experience for users.
That's the key to demystifying accessibility and ensure a consistent
and accessible user experience, even if it takes a bit longer.
This SC is new, does not change much for assistive technology users
and does not address the biggest problem speech recognition users deal
with in this regard, missing text labels for icon controls.
This should have been handled by user agents.



On 9/3/19, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 03/09/2019 20:45, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> However, "until user agents..." (to have a little throwback to WCAG 1.0
> days) implement this sort of behavior, actual users here and now would
> potentially still face problems that the SC tries to mitigate by placing
> some of the onus on authors.
>
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