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accessible name

The text assistive technology announces for a control: visible text, a label, aria-label or aria-labelledby, an image's alt, a frame's title. A button with none is announced as "button" and nothing else; an input with none as "edit text". A placeholder is not a name.

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ARIA · Place

Indexing and discovery

Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.

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