Accessible Description Calculation

• W3C Accessible Name and Description Computation Specification
• Accessible description provides more information about a form control, link or aria widget.
• Screen readers can be configured by users to ignore description information to reduce the amount of information spoken.

Accessible Description Techniques

Priority	Technique	Description
1	aria-describedby	The aria-describedby attribute contains a list of IDREFs to elements on the page. Text content of referenced elements are concatenated to compute the accessible description. Designed to reference visible text on the screen, like instructions and error feedback. Screen readers can be configured not to rendered accessible descriptions to reduce the amount of information spoken.
2	title	If no other source of an accessible description is found and the element has a title attribute that is not being used to define an accessible name, the content of the title attribute is used to define the accessible description.