This is an unpublished draft preview that might include content that is not yet approved. The published website is at w3.org/WAI/.

For Wide Review: Accessible Name and Description Computation

Date: 20 March 2018

The ARIA WG has published a wide review draft of Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1. This document describes how user agents determine the names and descriptions of accessible objects, where information comprising that name can come from various characteristics of the content, in order to lead to a consistent result across implementations. The document previously included Accessibility API Mappings, which have been moved to Core Accessibility API Mappings, so this document only describes the procedure to determine accessible name and description, not how to expose it. Please comment by 13 April 2018.

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This is an unpublished draft preview that might include content that is not yet approved. The published website is at w3.org/WAI/.