Accessible Name and Description Computation is a Candidate Recommendation

[Michael Cooper]

Subject: Accessible Name and Description Computation is a Candidate
Recommendation

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published
Accessible Name and Description Computation as a Candidate
Recommendation at:

https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.1/

Accessible Name and Description Computation describes how user agents
determine the names and descriptions of accessible objects from web
content languages. Documenting the algorithm through which names and
descriptions are to be determined promotes interoperable exposure of
these properties among different accessibility APIs and helps to ensure
that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent.

The draft implementation report shows implementations documented so far:
https://w3c.github.io/test-results/accname/

Please provide feedback by 17 July 2018. To comment, file an issue at
https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/. If this is not feasible, send
email to public-***@w3.org.

Regards,
Joanmarie Diggs, ARIA WG Chair,
James Nurthen, ARIA WG Chair,
Michael Cooper, ARIA WG W3C Staff Contact