The Art of Labeling

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There’s a lot of neat tricks in this video by Rob Dodson where he focuses on accessibility tricks in Chrome’s DevTools. A few notes:

  • Chrome DevTools has an experimental feature to help with accessibility testing that you can unlock if you head to chrome://flags/ and turn on in the DevTools settings.
  • Wrapping an <input type="checkbox"> in a <label> gives the input a name of the text in the label, even without a for attribute.
  • The aria-labelledby attribute overrides the name of the element with the text taken from a different element, referenced by ID. It can even compose a name together from multiple elements, including itself.
  • Adding tabindex='0' to an element will make it focusable.

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