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Re: WCAG 2.1 2.5.3 Label in name

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From: Jon Brundage
Date: Oct 1, 2019 8:30AM

Thanks Steve- could you cite an example of "exact substring of the
accessible name as computed by the accessible name computation algorithm"?

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Green
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 10:16 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.1 2.5.3 Label in name

You can still use that technique as long as the visible label is an exact
substring of the accessible name as computed by the accessible name
computation algorithm.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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Subject: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.1 2.5.3 Label in name

Hello-

Our organization has used hidden text to expand links that need more context
than what is displayed visually.

For example, where multiple ???learn more??? links appear on a page we will
expand them- the visual is ???learn more??? but we make them unique and
meaningful by adding ???about (subject)??? with hidden text. Or if an image
button is used the ALT text is expanded ???ALT=???learn more about (subject)???

Under WCAG 2.1 2.5.3 ???Label in Name??? is this technique no longer
acceptable? Due to the need to identify links with voice dictation, must the
full link text now appear visually? The extra space needed to expand all
links visually is a design constraint that we would like to avoid if
possible.

thanks

Jon
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