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Update va-telephone accessibility guidance for mesasageAriaDescribedby prop usage#6123
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Update va-telephone accessibility guidance for mesasageAriaDescribedby prop usage#6123RyanMunsch wants to merge 6 commits into
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Add item to guide usage of `messageAriaDescribedby` prop to not use same text value of contextual sibling element.
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Pull request overview
Updates the va-telephone component documentation to clarify accessibility best practices around messageAriaDescribedby, aiming to prevent redundant screen reader announcements.
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- Fixes formatting/indentation in the accessibility bullet list.
- Adds guidance discouraging
messageAriaDescribedbyusage when sibling context/label text would be redundantly announced.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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This is looking good! I added a comment with a few suggestions for tweaks. Let me know if you have questions!
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Co-authored-by: Amy Leadem <93996430+amyleadem@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
This PR updates the guidance for the
va-telephonecomponent regarding best practices for use of themessageAriaDescribedbyprop - guiding teams to not pass a value that matches the text content of the sibling element that serves as a label for the component.Related Issue
Closes #6099
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