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Contents of Effective label

Effective label

• Text content communicated to assistive technologies to identify the purpose of the form control
• Very essential for screen reader users
• Must be meaningful and unique within a page
• Screen reader programs guess when effective label missing
• Calculated from:
• label
• button
• input.title
• input.alt
• input.value
• content of the legend element
• alt attribute of img elements used in label and button elements