Bug 119695 – AX: title attribute content not exposed as accessible name

• Component: Accessibility
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Steve Faulkner]

In the absence of any other source for the accessible name/description for an element  the title attribute content should be used: [1]

"D. The last resort is to use text from a tooltip attribute (such as the title attribute in HTML). This is used only if nothing else, including subtree content, has provided results."

for example:

1)
<input type="text" title="test">

2)
<input type="text" aria-label="aria test">

should be equivalent, but they are not:

1) 
AXHelp:  "test"
AXDescription:  ""

2)
AXHelp:  "test"
AXDescription:  "aria test"


1) should be mapped thus:
AXHelp:  ""
AXDescription:  "test"

This results in VoiceOver not announcing the label for a control when the title attribute is used as the source of the label.


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#namecalculation

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/14714868>

[Steve Faulkner]

tested with Chrome (latest) and Firefox (latest) on Mac and they expose the  title attribute as the accessible (correctly), as per spec.

[Samuel White]

Dupe of issue that was fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 112842 ***