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aria-controls instead of aria-owns? #565
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Echoing @jeremyZX, I have seen this being flagged as a critical accessibility issue by AXE:
Any chances we could update this? Happy to create a PR but wanted to discuss here before. |
We've previously said this might be part of an intentional 'regression' to prefer the ARIA 1.0 pattern due to better support from assistive technologies. That was 4 years ago, so you'd hope that support for the 1.1 pattern had improved regardless, but we need to understand the nuance of this change and ensure it's thoroughly tested. |
In reviewing the WAI ARIA combobox pattern and seeing to what extent this library follows that pattern, I noticed that the form input is using
aria-owns
, which appears to be a ARIA 1.0 recommendation. At the bottom of the page, there is a note:Is there any possibility that you can update to use
aria-controls
instead ofaria-owns
, or a reason why one would not want to use aria-controls?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: