When using getByRole, represent non-breaking whitespace in failure output as , so that it's easier to diagnose the distinguish between " " and . This would be in the list below "here are the accessible roles" under the "name" output.
Motivation: Non-breaking whitespace is not collapsed into " " in the accname calculation. This is correct according to the ARIA spec, but is tricky to debug getByRole failures related to usage of non-breaking whitespace. See also #904
Alternatives considered
We considered a custom helper to automatically collapse whitespace, but that is harder to maintain and discover than having the behavior in the core library. Further, it does not actually represent end-user experience since the browser does not perform this collapsing automatically.
When using
getByRole, represent non-breaking whitespace in failure output as , so that it's easier to diagnose the distinguish between" "and . This would be in the list below "here are the accessible roles" under the "name" output.Motivation: Non-breaking whitespace is not collapsed into
" "in the accname calculation. This is correct according to the ARIA spec, but is tricky to debuggetByRolefailures related to usage of non-breaking whitespace. See also #904Alternatives considered
We considered a custom helper to automatically collapse whitespace, but that is harder to maintain and discover than having the behavior in the core library. Further, it does not actually represent end-user experience since the browser does not perform this collapsing automatically.