Principle 2 Operable · Guideline 2.5: Input Modalities

2.5.3 Label in Name

The visible label must be part of the accessible name.

Level A New in WCAG 2.1

What this means in practice

Otherwise speech control fails: saying “Submit” does nothing if the button is internally named “Send form”. Put the visible text at the start of the aria-label – or skip the aria-label.

Normative wording

The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.

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