Commits on Jan 16, 2024

1. Remove aria-labelledby from accordion sections …

   Adding `aria-labelledby` to a `<div>` with no explicit role is explicitly disallowed by the 'ARIA in HTML' specification [1] and in our testing provides little or no benefit to users, including users of assistive technologies [2].
   
   We’ve explored using `<section>` elements for each accordion section (for which a label would make sense), however best practise is to limit the use of region landmarks ‘as too many landmarks can dilute their usefulness in quickly navigating to important areas of a page’ [3].
   
   We don’t have clear evidence that marking accordion sections up as regions is useful, so more research is needed in this area.
   
   There has also been a suggestion that we could use `<article>` elements, but it would depend on how the accordion is being used. [4]
   
   We may still want to pursue these options in the future, but until we make a decision on whether the sections should have a semantic role remove the `aria-labelledby` attribute – it’s trivial to reintroduce it later.
   
   [1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/#docconformance-naming
   [2]: #2472 (comment)
   [3]: https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2018/03/03/landmarks.html#region
   [4]: #2472 (comment)

   

   36degrees committed Jan 16, 2024
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2. Document in CHANGELOG

   

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