How do you pass the aria_label parameter to get_search_form()?
I can't seem to pass the 'aria_label' parameter to get_search_form() in the correct way and can't find any examples. Lots with the first parameter 'echo' which works as in the documentation, but nothing I've tried for aria_label has made the search form add aria labels.
Topic accessibility theme-development Wordpress
Category Web
Since WordPress 5.5 we have been able to pass data into template files and use that data in the template from the $args array. This was a "long awaited addition" according to the article.
You can read more about this here https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/17/passing-arguments-to-template-files-in-wordpress-5-5/ and this goes along with the info @toby-dawes gave above.
This is super powerful and I have been using this in my custom themes since it was added. Love it!
I ran into this similar issue, and was able to resolve in my searchform.php by adding this to my form tag:
<form aria-label="<?php echo $args['aria_label']; ?>">...</form>
This produces the output of what was passed into the aria_label item in the arguments array.
You can pass an array of attributes with aria_label attribute in it.
Try this:
get_search_form(array('aria_label' => 'search-form'));
This function gets a form from searchform.php by default and if you have this file in your theme and aria-label still missing, you need to check the code in this file. Sometimes developers do not include an option to set an aria-label.
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