What's in a name? | Sarah Higley →

A missing or incorrect accessible name in some form or other is right up there with poor color contrast in the list of most common accessibility errors across the web.

More recently, a greater awareness of accessibility and an increase in the use of ARIA attributes has resulted in a sort of reverse naming problem, where elements that cannot or should not be named get artificial names through ARIA.

Sarah goes in-depth about the reasons and options for giving elements accessible names.