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Accessible Name and Description Computation
https://w3c.github.io/accname/
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Make a document about accessible name generation for different types of elements #147

Closed ollie-iterators closed 2 years ago

ollie-iterators commented 2 years ago

I think that it might be easier for people to understand how to compute accessible names if there was a way to separate the accessible name generation process into the different types of elements that are being tested (Ex: links, buttons, list elements, table elements, ...)

scottaohara commented 2 years ago

Hi @ollie-iterators, does HTML AAM's individual element name / desc steps help with what you are looking for? https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/#accessible-name-and-description-computation

or are you looking for something else here?

JAWS-test commented 2 years ago

I think it would be helpful to include a link to HTML AAM (and if available, other specifications that define it more precisely for their language, e.g. SVG AAM) in Accname

pkra commented 2 years ago

I think it would be helpful to include a link to HTML AAM (and if available, other specifications that define it more precisely for their language, e.g. SVG AAM) in Accname

There's actually a link at

https://github.com/w3c/accname/blob/79a20078e929cfcd25c92e3b50cb994c21b1b697/index.html#L328

but hardcoded as anchor.

ollie-iterators commented 2 years ago

This is helpful.

ollie-iterators commented 2 years ago

It would be better if it could be more separated from the "algorithm defined in Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1"

By this I mean, that it would be better if the algorithm were split up for the various elements based on how the different elements would go through the process of going through the algorithm. (As an example, SVG elements should not have the "alt" attribute, so Step E for SVG elements should not mention the "alt" attribute

ollie-iterators commented 2 years ago

Closing this issue to move it into html-aam