aria-brailleroledescription and aria-braillelabel

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

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Working draft
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/35323 This is a manual test so I cannot link to the results.

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

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=aria-brailleroledescription-and-aria-braillelabel
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+aria-brailleroledescription%20and%20aria-braillelabel
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=aria-brailleroledescription%20and%20aria-braillelabel
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=aria-brailleroledescription%20and%20aria-braillelabel

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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