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Re: chrome's devtools accessibility tree - where's the accessible description?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 16, 2020 3:31AM

No worries, we all need a knock on the head from time to time.
Thanks for pointing tihs out I had nearly forgotten and I am writing
an accessible name guidance for our new development teams.

On 5/15/20, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Found the problem, thanks. NVDA was announcing the element and then it
> sounded like the description was read after the accessible name, but that
> was just a trick of the ears and how the text was formatted. The
> description that I thought I heard was actually part of the accessible name
> so technically there was no description so nothing to show in the
> accessibility tree. It's obvious now after the fact but I was too close to
> it before and needed someone to knock my head.
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> For me at least, the description shows - but only when there is an
>> actual description. For instance, a link with a title="..." attribute,
>> or with an aria-describedby="..." pointing somewhere, it then a
>> "Description: ..." in the "Computed Properties" (and, in the case of
>> aria-describedby, an additional "Described by: ..." reference as well,
>> pointing to the element that provides the description).
>>
>> P
>> --
>> Patrick H. Lauke
>>
>>
> > > > >


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