aria-describedby should not map to UIA_DescribedBy on UIA
benbeaudry opened this issue · 2 comments
While they share the same name, the definition of the UIA_DescribedBy property actually matches the definition of aria-details.
The UIA expectations for the aria-describedby attribute should be only:
Property: FullDescription:
See also: Name Computation
It seems like the UIAutomation docs call out that aria-describedby
maps to UIA DescribedBy
, although it's possible that table is a little outdated since aria-channel
is apparently still an entry on there ~16 years after its removal.
Would it be possible to ask one of the contributors on that article to fix that mapping to map to FullDescription
instead? Otherwise, I think this could possibly be a point of confusion.
Good catch, I've reached out to folks at Microsoft to bring a much-needed update to this doc.