aria-brailleroledescription and aria-braillelabel

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 108)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Summary

Add the aria-brailleroledescription and aria-braillelabel attributes. These ARIA attributes can be used to override the role description or accessible name for an element when the output of a screen reader is directed to a braille device, primarily for purposes of brevity. See https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-brailleroledescription and https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-braillelabel

Motivation

These ARIA attributes can be used to override the role description or accessible name for an element when the output of a screen reader is directed to a braille device, primarily for purposes of brevity.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-brailleroledescription
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping — And all aria* attributes are exposed by default in firefox.
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1289234

Explainers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-brailleroledescription https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-braillelabel

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