Accessible description
Additional text conveying a control’s purpose or detail beyond its accessible name.
What Accessible description does not show
It should supplement rather than duplicate or replace the name.
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Related terms in Accessibility and provenance
What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
Keyboard accessibility · Focus order · Focus indicator · ARIA · Color contrast · Reduced motion · Captions · Audio description · Status message · Content Credential · C2PA assertion · C2PA claim · Claim signature · Manifest store · Content binding · Hard binding · Soft binding · Ingredient · Trust list · landmark · contrast ratio
Questions about Accessible description
What is Accessible description?
Additional text conveying a control’s purpose or detail beyond its accessible name.
What does Accessible description not show or guarantee?
It should supplement rather than duplicate or replace the name.
Which area of the glossary does Accessible description belong to?
Accessibility and provenance: What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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