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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #6782

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📚 Description

Slider set a static aria-label on the thumb:

<SliderThumb :aria-label="thumbs === 1 ? 'Thumb' : `Thumb ${thumb} of ${thumbs}`" />

The thumb is the element Reka UI renders with role="slider", so that string is the slider's accessible name, and it could not be replaced. aria-label on <USlider> fell through to SliderRoot — a <span> with no role that is never announced — and the ui prop only accepts classes. Three consequences, all described in #6782:

  1. A single-thumb slider could never be given a name. It always announced as "Thumb", which fails WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name wherever a visible label exists, and makes voice control unusable ("click Volume" doesn't match).
  2. Range sliders lost Reka UI's own names. SliderThumbImpl resolves $attrs['aria-label'] || getLabel(...), and getLabel() yields Minimum/Maximum for two thumbs and Value n of m for three or more. The hardcoded string overrode all of them, so a price filter announced "Thumb 1 of 2" instead of "Minimum".
  3. aria-valuetext could not be supplied, so sliders with units announced a bare number.

This PR sets inheritAttrs: false and splits $attrs by prefix: aria-* goes to the thumb, everything else stays on the root. The hardcoded label is gone, so Reka UI's multi-thumb names come back on their own. Thumb is kept only as a fallback for a single thumb that has neither aria-label nor aria-labelledby, so #5313's nameless-slider case doesn't regress.

No new API surface, and no change for anyone not passing aria-*.

<USlider v-model="volume" aria-label="Volume" />
<USlider v-model="delay" aria-label="Delay" aria-valuetext="`${delay} milliseconds`" />
<USlider v-model="price" :model-value="[10, 90]" />  <!-- Minimum / Maximum -->

Rendered output changes

Case Before After
1 thumb, aria-label="Volume" root gets it, thumb says Thumb thumb says Volume
1 thumb, unnamed Thumb Thumb (unchanged)
2 thumbs Thumb 1 of 2 / Thumb 2 of 2 Minimum / Maximum
3 thumbs Thumb n of 3 Value n of 3
aria-valuetext never reached the thumb applied to the thumb

No props or emits change, but the rendered DOM does: consumer aria-* attributes no longer appear on [data-slot="root"]. Selectors written against them would need updating — flagging it in case you'd rather label this differently.

🧪 Testing

  • Added an aria block to test/components/Slider.spec.ts covering aria-label, aria-labelledby (fallback stands down so the accname resolves through the reference), the unnamed fallback, two- and three-thumb defaults, aria-valuetext, and non-aria attributes staying on the root. Six existing snapshots updated to reflect the table above.
  • Verified in a real browser against the playground with Playwright. Computed accessible names — not just attributes — come out as Speed, Volume (via aria-labelledby), Delay, Price range on both thumbs, and Minimum/Maximum/Value n of 3 on the unlabelled multi-thumb examples. getByRole('slider', { name }) resolves for each, which is the voice-control path the issue reported as broken. The tooltip branch is covered too, since the hardcoded label was duplicated across both branches.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

Note

This touches the same two SliderThumb lines as #6768, which moves useFormField's ariaAttrs onto the thumb. The two changes compose — that PR handles form attributes, this one handles consumer attributes — but whichever lands second will need a trivial rebase. Worth checking the merge order of the two v-binds at that point so a consumer aria-describedby can't shadow the form's error association.

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📝 Walkthrough

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Slider routes ARIA attributes based on thumb count. Single-thumb sliders receive caller-provided labels or a default Thumb label. Multiple-thumb sliders retain primitive-generated labels and apply slider-level labels to a root group. Tests cover labels, aria-valuetext, reactive updates, FormField attributes, role preservation, and attribute placement. Documentation describes the updated labeling behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0a805

The slider now forwards accessibility attributes, but multi-thumb value text may not reach each focusable thumb and FormField descriptions may replace caller-provided descriptions. These can cause incomplete announcements or lost help/error associations, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary fix: forwarding Slider ARIA attributes to the thumb that exposes the slider role.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address [#6782] by forwarding single-thumb ARIA attributes, preserving multi-thumb naming, and retaining a fallback name.
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In `@docs/content/docs/2.components/slider.md`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the Slider accessibility tip to distinguish naming
behavior by thumb count: two-thumb sliders receive “Minimum” and “Maximum”
labels, while sliders with three or more thumbs receive “Value n of m” labels.
Preserve the guidance that aria-label or aria-labelledby is needed for a single
thumb without a visible label.

In `@src/runtime/components/Slider.vue`:
- Around line 105-119: Update the Slider render path using rootAttrs and
thumbAttrs so fallthrough attributes are filtered from the current attrs during
each render rather than relying on cached computed values from useAttrs().
Preserve the existing aria-label fallback behavior, and add a regression test
that changes aria-label after mount and verifies the thumb receives the updated
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Comment thread docs/content/docs/2.components/slider.md
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The thumb is the element rendered with `role="slider"`, so route consumer
`aria-*` attributes there instead of the root, which is neither focusable
nor labelable. Dropping the hardcoded label also restores Reka UI's own
`Minimum`/`Maximum` and `Value n of m` names for multi-thumb sliders, and
lets `aria-valuetext` through. A single unnamed thumb still falls back to
`Thumb` so it is never left nameless.

Closes nuxt#6782
Reka UI names the thumbs of a range slider by their position, `Minimum` /
`Maximum` for two and `Value n of m` for three or more. Forwarding one
`aria-label` to every thumb replaced those with the same string, leaving
the thumbs indistinguishable.

Only a single thumb now takes the consumer `aria-*` attributes. A label
that the thumbs do not take stays on the root, which is given a `group`
role so the name is actually exposed, `aria-label` on a roleless element
being ignored when the accessible name is computed.
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- Around line 108-110: Update the multi-thumb path in the Slider component so
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@benjamincanac I made some changes so that multiple thumbs don't receive the same aria-label attribute, I also stumbled upon the usage of role="group" and binding the aria-label to the root in cases with multiple thumbs, but upon further research I got mixed answers from various sources (one recommends it, other does not mention it at all), so I'm not sure if we want to keep it.

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- Line 108: Update the single-thumb slider attribute forwarding around
thumbAttrs so every caller-provided aria- attribute, including aria-invalid and
aria-errormessage, is applied to the focusable element with role="slider" rather
than the root. Preserve existing handling for other attributes and add
regression coverage for an ARIA attribute outside the current allowlist.
- Line 151: Update the SliderThumb attribute assembly to merge caller and
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v-bind="(typeof props.tooltip === 'object' ? props.tooltip : {})"
>
<SliderThumb data-slot="thumb" :class="ui.thumb({ class: props.ui?.thumb })" :aria-label="thumbs === 1 ? 'Thumb' : `Thumb ${thumb} of ${thumbs}`" v-bind="ariaAttrs" />
<SliderThumb data-slot="thumb" :class="ui.thumb({ class: props.ui?.thumb })" v-bind="{ ...(thumbs === 1 ? pick($attrs, thumbAttrs) : {}), ...ariaAttrs }" :aria-label="thumbs > 1 || $attrs['aria-labelledby'] ? undefined : ($attrs['aria-label'] ?? 'Thumb')" />

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Merge aria-describedby values from the caller and FormField.

...ariaAttrs overwrites the caller value that pick($attrs, thumbAttrs) adds. A custom description is lost when FormField also provides a hint, help text, or error description.

Concatenate and de-duplicate both ID lists. Keep FormField control of aria-invalid. Add a test with both description sources.

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In `@src/runtime/components/Slider.vue` at line 151, Update the SliderThumb
attribute assembly to merge caller and FormField aria-describedby ID lists,
de-duplicating IDs instead of allowing ariaAttrs to overwrite the caller value.
Preserve FormField ownership of aria-invalid and add coverage for both
description sources being present.

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- Around line 118-124: Update the test “forwards validity attributes to the
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Thanks @J-Michalek! 😊

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benjamincanac merged commit d6c3802 into nuxt:v4 Aug 21, 2026
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