A presentation at DDD By Night in in Melbourne VIC, Australia by Allison Ravenhall
But sometimes <label> doesn’t cut it • Composite label • No label on screen • Format info, examples, instructions
Composite label → aria-labelledby
No on-screen label → aria-label
Supplementary info → aria-describedby aria-describedby is not a label
More options? aria-details Contains pointer to rich content or a URL. Not a label. Poor screen reader support. aria-description Like aria-describedby but contains a string. Not a label. Doesn’t exist (yet).
A lightning talk about the situations when it’s OK to use ARIA to label text fields
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