(Accessibility) Discover Search Field missing label

[barlowm]

Steps to reproduce

Inspect source of "search" field

Screen Shot:

Source from inspection:

Expected Result

There should be a visible label for the field, or an AT accessible label per WCAG guidelines (see below).

The search field DOES have an "aria-label=Search input".

However How to Meet WCAG 2 (Quick Reference) 3.3.2Labels or Instructions only indicates that the following ARIA attributes are sufficient:

G131: Providing descriptive labels using one of the following techniques:

• ARIA1: Using the aria-describedby property to provide a descriptive label for user interface controls
• ARIA9: Using aria-labelledby to concatenate a label from several text nodes

Meta Issue:

Accessibility Audit for Kibana 7.0
Accessibility Make Kibana Discover Accessible for 7.0

Kibana Version:

7.0

Relevant WCAG Criteria:

WCAG Criterion

Guideline 3.3 – Input Assistance

3.3.2 Labels or Instructions - Level A

[myasonik]

Talked with @rayafratkina and @timroes and we're going to close this issue.

I agree that adding an always visible label would improve this but I don't think we're at a place where this is the thing we want to be tackling (changing the UI here will require quite a bit of time). Once we're in a place where we're tackling issues like this one, I think we'll be able to identify it and reopen this issue but no need to let this sit on the vine, effectively, in perpetuity.

We could pedantically fulfill the spec by changing the aria-label to an aria-labelledby but I don't think that actually helps anyone if they label doesn't become visible along with that.