[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 61995] Accessibility description for an element should make use of aria-labelledby.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61995





--- Comment #3 from Alice Boxhall <aboxhall at chromium.org>  2011-06-06 00:40:38 PST ---
Here is what the Accessibility Programming Guidelines for Cocoa (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Accessibility/cocoaAXOverview/cocoaAXOverview.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001057-BAJBCJHJ) say of the two currrently used attributes:

NSAccessibilityTitleAttribute: "This attribute is required for any user interface object that displays a visible text title as part of its visual interface... Note that the title attribute is not intended to contain static text that serves as the title for a user interface element, but that is not part of its visual interface.  For objects that are accompanied by separate static text titles and descriptions, use the NSAccessibilityTitleUIElementAttribute and NSAccessibilityServesAsTitleForUIElementsAttribute attributes (described in “Provide Descriptive Information for All Elements”)."

(For a moment I thought NSAccessibilityTitleUIElementAttribute might be appropriate, but hacking it in didn't seem to work, even dodging the issue of having more than one value for aria-labelledby.)

NSAccessibilityDescriptionAttribute: "Available in Mac OS X version 10.4 and later, this attribute contains a localized string that describes the object’s purpose. All user interface objects that do not display a text title (and therefore do not include the title attribute) should include the description attribute to allow an assistive application to describe the purpose of the object to the user."

So it seems like it is appropriate to use the value from aria-labelledby, but not aria-label, as the NSAccessibilityTitle attribute; perhaps VoiceOver's ignoring it when generating the accessibility object hierarchy it is a quirk or bug? 

This also makes me wonder whether it would be better to have the AccessibilityObjectWrapper return the value of AccessibilityRenderObject::title() for NSAccessibilityDescriptionAttribute in the case where NSAccessibilityDescriptionAttribute is empty, rather than having the logic in AccessibilityRenderObject. I'd really appreciate some more guidance -- the ARIA spec gives virtually no helpful information about this case, and I can't find any documentation on what VoiceOver looks for.

As for suppressing the test on non-Mac platforms; I'm not sure how to do that, is it something that is done in code?

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