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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 10, 2021 5:00AM

The NG attributes come with Angular, nothing we can do about them. If
Angular really wanted to adhere to HTML, those should start with
"data-" but coding frameworks are sadly notoriously bad about
producing semantically valid//accurate HTML.
Fortunately, in this case, these attributes are harmless, as our
fellow listers have already pointed out.


On 8/9/21, Michael H < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thank you for the help Glen!
>
> You folks are awesome!
>
> I will do a manual inspection. "Message filtering" is a much better view to
> look at.
>
> Thanks again to you and Steve. I will be forwarding this thread to my QA
> member for them to reference as well.
>
> I'll be back if I have more questions. Much appreciated!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:22 PM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> A bookmarklet or other filtering tool for the NU results would be nice but
>> I'm not sure I'd trust the results. As Steve said, it might not fully
>> filter, and I'd be worried it filtered too much. But I understand there's
>> a lot of "noise" in the parsing results. Technically, 4.1.1 only lists
>> four types of parsing errors, but some of the other parsing errors can
>> point out accessibility issues. For example, parsing can find IDs that
>> don't exist such as an aria-labelledby pointing to an ID that is
>> misspelled
>> or incorrectly pointing to the NAME attribute. Those aren't technical
>> WCAG
>> 4.1.1 errors but they are accessibility issues that would hopefully be
>> caught when you're looking for 4.1.2 issues. A 4.1.1 filtering
>> bookmarklet
>> might filter those results out since they're not one of the four mentioned
>> in the SC but I wouldn't want those filtered out.
>>
>> I find that a manual inspection of the results works best (for me). I use
>> the "message filtering" option of the NU results which helps to group
>> items
>> together and makes it much easier to go through.
>>
>> But I'm digressing from the original question about NG attributes and
>> agree
>> with Steve that they can be ignored.
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >


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