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In today's episode of poor uses of ARIA, when you link directly to an issue comment (not just the issue itself) in GitHub, you get this (simplified):
<a aria-label="Issue #904" href="github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…">#904 (comment)</a>
So a screen reader user gets "issue #904" while a sighted user sees "#904 (comment)". So the fact that it is a link to a comment is lost to the screen reader user. Seriously, people!
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When performing a say all on webpages, the screen should scroll along with the speech · Issue #904 · nvaccess/nvda

Reported by mike.reiser on 2010-09-13 20:25 I was showing my sighted friend a news story, and while doing a sayall, he said that it didn't follow on the screen while the speech was going. It wo...
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Adrian Roselli
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Adrian Roselli
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Wow, I thought they fixed all of these years ago.

It was so bad I featured them in my Uncanny A11y talk.

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Jamie Teh
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@aardrian I think this might be a fairly recent regression (months maybe), but not sure. It used to be a lot worse, to the point where i had to Greasemonkey it to make it remotely efficient for me. I still have a Greasemonkey script to fix certain annoyances, but that list is shorter than it used to be.
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Sukil Etxenike
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Sukil Etxenike
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Why! Why do they use aria-label in this case!
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Jamie Teh
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@sukiletxe I know right? The only thing I can think is that there might be an icon visually which indicates whether it's a pull request or an issue. Maybe someone complained or they just decided that they should expose that information, so they did it in the aria-label... without considering the loss of other contextual information provided by the text.
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Kara Goldfinch
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The daftest one I’ve seen which to be fair has mostly been fixed is Startpage labeled most all of their homepage links as ‘link’. I think the only reason why they finally sort of fixed it is that I complained. There’s still a few at the bottom like it.
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James Scholes
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I've filed this as an internal issue. I definitely think it's a recent regression.
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