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From: glen walker
Date: Feb 26, 2022 11:46AM

Ok, perhaps my last comment on this topic. Regarding the CSS content
property, I forgot to say that I had tested it without an aria-label so
that step 2C in the accessible name calculation would be irrelevant and
thus 2F *might* apply, but 2F conditions the use of CSS content by saying
if the "role allows name from content", then CSS content should be
applied. A list (ul) is not considered an element that gets its name from
content (https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#namefromcontent) so CSS content
should be ignored and JAWS is correct.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:27 AM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yes, Firefox and Chrome. Chrome's AOM inspector is easier to read (for
> me) than Firefox's, but I had tried both. Both show a valid accessible
> name and role.
>
> I had tried various workarounds (which wasn't the gist of my original
> question) on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (iOS) with NVDA, JAWS, and
> VoiceOver.
>
> One side note that I didn't include originally because I was trying to
> keep my example simple, was that the main list (either <ul> or <div
> role="list">) also had a CSS content attribute that added text to the list
> (not the listitem). The text was read by NVDA and VoiceOver but not by
> JAWS. The accessible name calculation says that CSS content should be
> included in the accessible name, but it's in step 2F which is after step 2C
> so in theory should be ignored if there's an aria-label.
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 10:50 AM Niranjan Vala < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried this on firefox? firefox has the accessibility
>> inspector built-in. I will try it tomorrow because I am currently not on
>> my
>> desktop.
>>
>>