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From: Aditya
Date: Feb 25, 2022 8:10PM

Aria-label is not meant to override text (in non-interactive) elements. So divs spans p tags etc should not use aria-label.

Buttons, links, select tags etc are OK.

In the original example, if there was no aria-label, how would the list and its items get accessible name?

Background images do not have alt text so, while calculating the accessibility name, the algorithm just sees empty list.



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> On Feb 25, 2022, at 8:33 PM, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> There was no aria-label on the real list example and it wasn't read there either. Not sure why the aria-label would prevent things from being read anyway. What makes you say that?
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>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 7:23 PM Aditya via WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> aria-label on a div seems to be why they are not reading it.
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>> If you were to remove aria-label and use “sr-only” spans inside the list item divs, it might work.
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