The documentation for aria-label mentions that this is for interactive elements only, but this doesn't seem right

[julienw]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

No response

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Everywhere in the page, we can read that we should not specify aria-label for non-interactive elements. Either the term "interactive" has a special meaning, or I believe it's not true.
For example a screen reader user might use this information even though the element isn't interactive.

What did you expect to see?

I expect to see a more precise information about when aria-label can be used.
Especially I'd like to see the difference in behavior between "roles supporting Name from Author" and "roles supporting Name from Content" and some more explanation around these concepts.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://w3c.github.io/accname/
https://w3c.github.io/aria/

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

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• Folder: en-us/web/accessibility/aria/attributes/aria-label
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/accessibility/aria/attributes/aria-label/index.md
• Last commit: 76c91fc
• Document last modified: 2023-12-31T07:23:11.000Z