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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 5, 2025 8:37AM

On 05/08/2025 14:31, Steve Green via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> It’s about whether a link’s child element’s role should appear in the accessibility tree and be announced by screen readers. Every specification I can find says it must

Maybe not necessarily that "it must", but rather ... specs are currently
vague/silent about the scenario. The ARIA spec does not explicitly
mention that once an aria-label or aria-labelledby has been used to
effectively overwrite the content of an element with a particular role,
the child elements within it are essentially ignored. Because of this
vagueness/ambiguity, there are diverging implementations in practice of
how AT handle this.

>, but JAWS and NVDA violate that. I will report bugs against both of them.

See existing things like https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/13296

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