Re: [orca-list] aria-label on links not read by Orca

[Mallory <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

So, when testing a page or reading code, I am expecting an SR user to only get the aria-label (this way when 
it's done wrong I can ding the HTML writers by showing them users may be missing actual link text-- a lot of 
devs seem to still think aria-label is *additive* to the link text instead of replacing it. The aria-label 
name-hammer of doom. I also once ran into an instance of actual HTML tags inside the aria-label, so got a lot 
of "greater" and "lesser" reading out).
The not being able to spell aria-label and aria-labelledby stuff is also something that causes issue-- we see 
it even in buffered SRs. We use this fact to warn devs not to put whole damn books inside these, or have 
whatever aria-labelledby is also available nearby as plain text (the latter got popular in education to hook 
up long paragraphs of instructions to form controls, ug).

I wish developers didn't mess up aria-label so much :(

_mallory

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> I can confirm that it works in master, thanks a lot.
>
> The flat review produces a strange result: on my initial test case. When 
> I move between words, at the end of the page it reads words from the 
> previous page. Let me know if you're able to reproduce this behavior or 
> if I should provide you a debug log.
>
>
> It's a good question. I must think about it and contact the web 
> accessibility expert I know and Mozilla a11y team.
>
> I'll come back to you.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex.