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Re: Query regarding equal access accessibility checker reported bug

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Aug 9, 2023 10:21AM

Thanks for confirming Glen!
This is extremely helpful.

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 11:59 AM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> IBM's accessibility checker marks it as an "info" warning, not a failure,
> so it's not a WCAG failure. But I agree it's a false positive in the way
> it's reporting it since the <input> does indeed have an accessible name
> that comes from the value attribute.
>
> The HTML spec for <input type="submit"> says:
>
> "If the element has a value attribute, the button's label must be the value
> of that attribute"
>
>
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#submit-button-state-(type=submit)
>
> The button's label will be the accessible name.
>
> Both WAVE and ARCToolkit report the accesskey as a warning and suggest you
> not use it, but again, it's a warning and not a failure.
> Axe doesn't say anything about it.
>
> As a keyboard user myself, I love having an accesskey, but it's not very
> discoverable (if at all). I generally have to inspect the code to see if
> there's a field that I'm hoping has an access key, such as the search field
> on wikipedia.org
> > > > >