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## Background

This rule applies to elements with a [widget role][] that [support name from content][supports name from content]. This includes the following: `button`, `checkbox`, `gridcell`, `link`, `menuitem`, `menuitemcheckbox`, `menuitemradio`, `option`, `radio`, `searchbox`, `switch`, `tab`, `treeitem`.
This rule applies to elements with a [widget role][] that [support name from content][supports name from content]. This includes the following: `button`, `checkbox`, `gridcell`, `link`, `menuitem`, `menuitemcheckbox`, `menuitemradio`, `option`, `radio`, `switch`, `tab`, `treeitem`.

@shunguoy shunguoy Sep 4, 2026

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Just wondering if this rule should be expanded to include all the labelable elements ? If a labelable element takes a role which has an author-supplied accessible name other than from label itself, then same requirement is applied. It's fine for a new issue, rather than included in the current one.


The understanding document of [2.5.3 Label in Name][understand253] use the term "symbolic text characters" to refer to a type of [non-text content][] that uses text characters as symbols, such as using "x" to mean "close". This rule considers them as "characters expressing non-text content". Unicode emojis are another example of characters expressing non-text content, although these are not "symbolic text characters".

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