As it's Friday (here at least) can all you webdevs do me a favour and make this simple code change: 1. Search for `aria-labeledby` in your codebases. 2. Change it to `aria-labelledby` (note the double L) 3. Submit a PR. 4. Congratulate yourself for your Friday contribution. - ThreadSky

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keithamus.social • 68 days ago

As it's Friday (here at least) can all you webdevs do me a favour and make this simple code change:

1. Search for `aria-labeledby` in your codebases.
2. Change it to `aria-labelledby` (note the double L)
3. Submit a PR.
4. Congratulate yourself for your Friday contribution.

Comments

dbaron.org•67 days ago

Wait, how did a UK English spelling sneak in? (https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/#naming-common-words)

psychpsyo.bsky.social•33 days ago

The spec for labelledby has a note about that:
https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-labelledby
"However, the accessibility API features to which this property is mapped have established the "labelledby" spelling. This property is spelled that way to match the convention and minimize the difficulty for developers."

melanierichards.bsky.social•66 days ago

😈 Probably just predated the Design Principles note. Looks like the note’s history only goes back to 2020, though I’m unsure whether that’s complete or that particular principle existed elsewhere in the early days of ARIA

dbaron.org•67 days ago

(If my memory is correct, the cases where US and UK English rules on whether to double a final consonant before -ed or -ing are words ending with -l or -p, preceded by a vowel, in an unstressed syllable. The canonical examples are often travel and worship.)

dbaron.org•67 days ago

cases where the rules *differ*