Dropdown: Support aria-describedby

[2ne]

Describe the feature you would like to see added

InputText supports aria-describedby and it would be helpful if dropdown and other inputs also supported this property as there is no other way to offer help text to describe the dropdown to a user using a screen reader

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No response

Describe the solution you'd like

Add property aria-describedby to dropdown and all other input types

[melloware]

Don't you want ariaLabelledBy which already exists on dropdown not ARIA Described By?

<label value="My Dropdown" id="my-label" />
<Dropdown ariaLabelledBy="my-label"...

[2ne]

aria-labelledby and aria-describedby attributes both reference other elements to calculate text alternatives.

• aria-labelledby is for the label
• aria-describedby is for the description

So for the inputText component you use aria-describedby for text underneath the input to explain it. But for inputText you don't need aria-labelledby as you have the id and htmlfor.

<label for="email"/>Email Address</label>
<Dropdown id="email" aria-describedby="email-description></Dropdown>
<p id="email-description">We'll only use this for spam.</p>

[melloware]

Got it! Let me come up with something clever.