Support for aria-labels on link

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### Added
 
 -  Resolves [#2897](https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/issues/2897). Moved from JUnit to VSTest reporter with file attachments, by [@compulim](https://github.com/compulim) in PR [#2990](https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/pull/2990)
+-  Added `aria-label` attribute support for built-in Markdown engine, by [@patniko](https://github.com/patniko) in PR [#3022](https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/pull/3022)
 
 ### Fixed
 

docs/HOOKS.md

@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ const renderMarkdown = useRenderMarkdown();
 renderMarkdown('Hello, World!') === '<p>Hello, World!</p>\n';
 ```
 
-To modify this value, change the value in the style options prop passed to Web Chat.
+The Markdown engine can be reconfigured by passing `renderMarkdown` prop to Web Chat. The default engine is a customized [Markdown-It](https://npmjs.com/package/markdown-it) with [HTML sanitizer](https://npmjs.com/package/sanitize-html) and [support `aria-label` attribute](https://npmjs.com/package/markdown-it-attrs). The customization can be found in [bundle/src/renderMarkdown.js](https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/tree/master/packages/bundle/src/renderMarkdown.js).
 
 ## `useRenderToast`
 

packages/bundle/package.json

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     "botframework-webchat-core": "0.0.0-0",
     "core-js": "^3.6.4",
     "markdown-it": "^10.0.0",
+    "markdown-it-attrs": "^3.0.2",
     "markdown-it-for-inline": "^0.1.1",
     "memoize-one": "^5.1.1",
     "microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk": "1.6.0",

packages/bundle/src/__tests__/renderMarkdown.spec.js

@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ describe('renderMarkdown', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('should render aria-labels', () => {
+    const options = { markdownRespectCRLF: true };
+    expect(renderMarkdown('[example](sample.com){aria-label="Sample label"}', options)).toBe(
+      '<p><a href="sample.com" aria-label="Sample label" target="_blank">example</a></p>\n'
+    );
+  });
+
   it('should render sip protocol links correctly', () => {
     const options = { markdownRespectCRLF: true };
     expect(renderMarkdown(`[example@test.com](sip:example@test.com)`, options)).toBe(

packages/bundle/src/renderMarkdown.js

@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 
 import iterator from 'markdown-it-for-inline';
 import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
+import markdownItAttrs from 'markdown-it-attrs';
 import sanitizeHTML from 'sanitize-html';
 
 const SANITIZE_HTML_OPTIONS = {
   allowedAttributes: {
-    a: ['href', 'name', 'target', 'title'],
+    a: ['aria-label', 'href', 'name', 'target', 'title'],
     img: ['alt', 'src']
   },
   allowedSchemes: ['data', 'http', 'https', 'ftp', 'mailto', 'sip', 'tel'],
@@ -53,25 +54,27 @@ const customMarkdownIt = new MarkdownIt({
   linkify: true,
   typographer: true,
   xhtmlOut: true
-}).use(iterator, 'url_new_win', 'link_open', (tokens, index) => {
-  // TODO: [P4] This is copied from v3 and looks clunky
-  //       We should refactor this code
-  const targetAttrIndex = tokens[index].attrIndex('target');
+})
+  .use(markdownItAttrs)
+  .use(iterator, 'url_new_win', 'link_open', (tokens, index) => {
+    // TODO: [P4] This is copied from v3 and looks clunky
+    //       We should refactor this code
+    const targetAttrIndex = tokens[index].attrIndex('target');
 
-  if (~targetAttrIndex) {
-    tokens[index].attrs[targetAttrIndex][1] = '_blank';
-  } else {
-    tokens[index].attrPush(['target', '_blank']);
-  }
+    if (~targetAttrIndex) {
+      tokens[index].attrs[targetAttrIndex][1] = '_blank';
+    } else {
+      tokens[index].attrPush(['target', '_blank']);
+    }
 
-  const relAttrIndex = tokens[index].attrIndex('rel');
+    const relAttrIndex = tokens[index].attrIndex('rel');
 
-  if (~relAttrIndex) {
-    tokens[index].attrs[relAttrIndex][1] = 'noopener noreferrer';
-  } else {
-    tokens[index].attrPush(['target', 'noopener noreferrer']);
-  }
-});
+    if (~relAttrIndex) {
+      tokens[index].attrs[relAttrIndex][1] = 'noopener noreferrer';
+    } else {
+      tokens[index].attrPush(['target', 'noopener noreferrer']);
+    }
+  });
 
 export default function render(markdown, { markdownRespectCRLF }) {
   if (markdownRespectCRLF) {