Success Criterion 4.1.2
Conformance level A

Rating Widget With No Name or Value Semantics at All

4.1.2 — Name, Role, Value

Scenario

Setting

A professional networking site's profile editor

What’s wrong

Rating widgets with no name/value semantics.

Example

<div class="checkbox" onclick="toggle()"></div>

Why it matters

Screen-reader and voice-control users who can operate only what the accessibility tree exposes.

How to test

Inspect a rating widget in DevTools: check for a name and value semantics (e.g., radiogroup pattern) — visual-only stars with no semantics fail.

How to fix

Give the rating widget a name and value semantics (e.g., radiogroup or slider pattern).

<input type="checkbox" id="opt-1">

<label for="opt-1">Email notifications</label>

A native input exposes its role and checked state automatically; a styled div exposes none of that without a lot of manual ARIA.

Outcome

On a professional networking site's profile editor, this barrier is gone for screen-reader and voice-control users who can operate only what the accessibility tree exposes — they no longer have to work around this.

Who is affected