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Adding a Description to an Element using aria-describedby

The aria-describedby attribute is used to associate an element with a text description. The value of the attribute should be the ID of an element that contains the description.

Working Example

How is the following link announced by screen readers?

Google
The world’s best known search engine

Is this what you expected?

Code

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
<p>
  How is the following link announced by screen readers?
</p>
<a aria-describedby="description" href="...">Google</a>
<div id="description">
  The world's best known search engine
</div>
<p>
  Is this what you expected?
</p>
#description {
  display: none;
}
NIL

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