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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 25, 2022 8:11PM

https://www.tpgi.com/short-note-on-aria-label-aria-labelledby-and-aria-describedby/

AT here are seeing that list as completely devoid of content (as that aria-label is not - consistently at least - seen as an appropriate stand-in for content here) and choosing to just not announce it

> On 26 Feb 2022, at 02:33, 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?
>
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 7:23 PM Aditya via WebAIM-Forum <
>> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> aria-label on a div seems to be why they are not reading it.
>>
>> If you were to remove aria-label and use “sr-only” spans inside the list
>> item divs, it might work.
>>
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