Which enumeration characters play a role in determining the name?

[JAWS-test]

I don't find any information in the Acc Name specification about the extent to which the enumeration characters of lists should be output as names.

HTML AAM specifies for certain platforms that at least the content of the type attribute is taken into account when determining the name. Unfortunately, there is no information about what applies to enumeration characters,

• created via list-style-type,
• which are displayed by default,
• which are displayed at ul instead of ol.

Currently, for example, JAWS outputs all enumeration characters, regardless of HTML element (ol or ul) and regardless of the type of creation (type or list-style-type).

My personal opinion:

• enumeration characters of ol should be considered in the name, because they transmit information
• enumeration characters in ul should not be included in the name as they are purely decorative.

This would also mean that e.g. list-style-type=decimal at ul would be an error.

See also: w3c/aria#961

[scottaohara]

seems this would be closed by w3c/accname#203