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robin_reala on Feb 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library

No. Well, you could use aria-describedby but that has to refer to a separate element. There’s no generic aria-description.

ehnto on Feb 1, 2016 [–]

You could use aria-label potentially, but it has fairly scrict semantic connotations as a label for an input, I believe.

chinchang on Feb 1, 2016 | | [–]

Yeah, that should bring in some accessibility. Right now the library uses `data-hint` attribute. We could use `aria-label` attribute instead!

jordanscales on Feb 1, 2016 | | [–]

aria-label is totally cool for not-input's: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_aria-label_to_provide_l...

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