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bug: overriding aria attributes is not easy or straightforward

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Bug Report

Ionic version: [x] 4.x

Current behavior: Most Accessibility attributes, e.g. Aria-Label, Aria-LabeledBy, Role set on the Ion-Button does not work

Expected behavior: The Accessibility attributes should work on Ion-Button

Steps to reproduce: Create a simple Ion-Button with following attributes:

<ion-button role="link" aria-label="this is my data">
    View my data </ion-button>

This sample code should be read out as: “this is my data link”, but instead it reads out “View my data button”

Other information: Root Cause: Ion-Button has a shadow root: “button” . The attributes are not copied over to the button element. So the aria attributes not working.

Note: A workaround is to create a directive with MutationObserver to copy the aria attributes from Ion-Button to its shadow-root button.

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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VincentCretecommented, Jun 5, 2020

@BingSZou, can-you show us an example of your workaround? We have the same problem.

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ionitron-bot[bot]commented, May 21, 2022

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