diff --git a/accname/name/comp_text_node.html b/accname/name/comp_text_node.html
index b9b26e6673915c..4542bd1589419c 100644
--- a/accname/name/comp_text_node.html
+++ b/accname/name/comp_text_node.html
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 
 
 <h1>text/element/text nodes, no space</h1>
-<button class="ex" data-expectedlabel="buttonlabel" data-testname="button with text/comment/text nodes, no space">button<span></span>label</button>
-<h3 class="ex" data-expectedlabel="headinglabel" data-testname="heading with text/comment/text nodes, no space">heading<span></span>label</h3>
-<a href="#" class="ex" data-expectedlabel="linklabel" data-testname="link with text/comment/text nodes, no space">link<span></span>label</a>
+<button class="ex" data-expectedlabel="buttonlabel" data-testname="button with text/element/text nodes, no space">button<span></span>label</button>
+<h3 class="ex" data-expectedlabel="headinglabel" data-testname="heading with text/element/text nodes, no space">heading<span></span>label</h3>
+<a href="#" class="ex" data-expectedlabel="linklabel" data-testname="link with text/element/text nodes, no space">link<span></span>label</a>
 <br>
 
 <h1>text/comment/text nodes, no space</h1>
diff --git a/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js b/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js
index feb71b8398454f..2b790b44bf8e48 100644
--- a/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js
+++ b/wai-aria/scripts/aria-utils.js
@@ -136,10 +136,17 @@ const AriaUtils = {
       let label = el.getAttribute("data-expectedlabel");
       let testName = el.getAttribute("data-testname") || label; // data-testname optional if label is unique per test file
       promise_test(async t => {
-        const expectedLabel = el.getAttribute("data-expectedlabel");
+        let expectedLabel = el.getAttribute("data-expectedlabel");
         let computedLabel = await test_driver.get_computed_label(el);
-        // Todo: Remove whitespace normalization after https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/192 is addressed. Change prior line back to `const`, too.
-        computedLabel = computedLabel.trim()
+
+        // See: https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/192 and https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/208
+        //
+        // HTML/JS whitespace matches regular space, formfeed (\f), newline (\n), return (\r), tab (\t), vertical tab (\v), 
+        // non-breaking space (\xA0), and a few more Unicode whitespace characters: \u00A0, \u2028, and \u2029.
+        const whitespace = /\s+/g; 
+        expectedLabel = expectedLabel.replace(whitespace, ' ').trim();
+        computedLabel = computedLabel.replace(whitespace, ' ').trim();
+
         assert_equals(computedLabel, expectedLabel, el.outerHTML);
       }, `${testName}`);
     }