ARIA in HTML was updated today to clarify that when a label element is not associated with a labelable element, that authors may specify ARIA roles and aria-* attributes applicable to the specified role.
A reduced test case was created to demonstrate the updated allowances.
This change is being made because for the use case of a label element being used and not associated with a labelable element, there's no draw backs to allowing ARIA attributes to being defined. But, if the label element is implicitly or explicitly associated with a labelable element, assigning ARIA attributes can resulted in invalid nesting of roles, or can break the naming association, resulting in the labeled element no longer having an accessible name.
ARIA in HTML was updated today to clarify that when a
labelelement is not associated with a labelable element, that authors may specify ARIA roles andaria-*attributes applicable to the specified role.A reduced test case was created to demonstrate the updated allowances.
This change is being made because for the use case of a
labelelement being used and not associated with a labelable element, there's no draw backs to allowing ARIA attributes to being defined. But, if thelabelelement is implicitly or explicitly associated with a labelable element, assigning ARIA attributes can resulted in invalid nesting of roles, or can break the naming association, resulting in the labeled element no longer having an accessible name.