This is an unpublished draft preview that might include content that is not yet approved.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

Accessible Name and Description Computation (Accname) is a W3C Recommendation

Date: 18 December 2018

Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 (“Accname”) was published today as a “W3C Recommendation” web standard. It describes how browsers and other user agents determine the names and descriptions of accessible objects from web content languages. This information is in turn exposed through accessibility APIs so that assistive technologies can identify these objects and present their names or descriptions to users.

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This is an unpublished draft preview that might include content that is not yet approved.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/.